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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Penny Oaks. 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 Penny Oaks.<1>

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Penny Oaks, so we are uncertain whether Penny Oaks is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Penny Oaks would be found somewhere in McDonough County, Illinois.

More Orphans in  McDonough 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 McDonough County.

ArgyleHidden Hills
Arrowhead 
 Meadowbrook
BarnsvilleMuddy Lane
Brattleville 
BrucePleasant Valley Mills
Burnsville 
 Rolling Meadows
Drowning Fork 
 Sagwa
EppersonSorgum
EvergreenSpring Creek
  
FriendshipVilla Westbrook
  
GeorgetownWest Brook Village
GrindstoneWorcester
  
Hickory PointYoung

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.