Do you know of Onward ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Onward. 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 Onward.<1>
We found mention of Onward as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Cumberland County, Illinois.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1887 and closed in 1887.
Communities Also Named Onward ...
We found five communities that share the name Onward.
Within Illinois, the name Onward is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Onward.
- Indiana
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Onward [Cass County].
- Mississippi
- Sharkey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Onward [Sharkey County].
- North Carolina
- Tennessee
- British Columbia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Onward ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Onward:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
More Orphans in Cumberland County ...
Can you help?
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 Cumberland County.
| Bradbury Station | Hazle Dell |
| Cedron | Long Point Grove |
| Croake | |
| Majority Point | |
| Fulkerson | Mule Creek |
| Greenup Crossing | Pageville |
| Greenup Hill | |
| Vervay Park |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Onward 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |