Do you know of Norwood Park ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Norwood Park. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Norwood Park.
Our sources for Norwood Park (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Norwood Park other than they indicate that Norwood Park would be found somewhere in Cook County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1870 and closed in 1894.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Norwood Park ...
We found five communities that share the name Norwood Park.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Norwood Park.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Peoria County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Norwood Park [Peoria County].
- Peoria County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Norwood Park [Baltimore County].
- Kent County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Norwood Park [Kent County].
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Norwood Park [Delaware County].
- Virginia
- Danville City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Norwood Park [Danville City].
- Maryland
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Norwood Park ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Norwood Park:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Norwood Park - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
The FIPS database contains an entry for Norwood Park.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 17/54417 (Place Name: Norwood Park)
County: Cook (FIPS State/County: 17/031)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Norwood Park) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Cook County ...
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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Cook County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Norwood Park could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |