Do you know of Pembroke ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pembroke. 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 Pembroke.
We found mention of Pembroke as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kankakee 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.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1900.
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 Pembroke ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Pembroke.
Within Illinois, the name Pembroke is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, eighteen are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Broward 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 Florida community of Pembroke [Broward County].
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Pembroke [Polk County].
- Georgia
- Bryan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Pembroke [Bryan County].
- Indiana
- Jasper 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 Indiana community of Pembroke [Jasper County].
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Pembroke [Newton County].
- Kentucky
- Christian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pembroke [Christian County].
- Maine
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Pembroke [Washington County].
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Pembroke [Plymouth County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Pembroke.
- New Hampshire
- Merrimack County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Pembroke [Merrimack County].
- New York
- Genesee County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Pembroke [Genesee County].
- North Carolina
- New Hanover 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 North Carolina community of Pembroke [New Hanover County].
- Robeson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Pembroke [Robeson County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Pembroke.
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Pembroke.
- Pennsylvania
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Pembroke.
- South Dakota
- Virginia
- Giles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Pembroke [Giles County].
- Goochland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Pembroke [Goochland County].
- Petersburg City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Pembroke [Petersburg City].
- West Virginia
- Braxton County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Pembroke [Braxton County].
- Florida
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pembroke ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pembroke:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
The FIPS database contains an entry for Pembroke.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 17/58525 (Place Name: Pembroke)
County: Kankakee (FIPS State/County: 17/091)
Class: X2
More Orphans in Kankakee 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 Kankakee 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 Pembroke 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/ |