Do you know of Pleasantville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pleasantville. 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 Pleasantville.

We found mention of Pleasantville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fulton 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 1847 and closed in 1852.

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 Pleasantville ...

We found 29 communities that share the name Pleasantville.

Within Illinois, the name Pleasantville is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 26 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - Litchfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Pleasantville [Litchfield County].
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Pleasantville [New Castle County].
- Indiana
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Pleasantville [Jackson County].
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Pleasantville [Sullivan County].
- Iowa
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Pleasantville [Marion County].
- Maine
  - Knox 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 Maine community of Pleasantville [Knox County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Pleasantville [Anne Arundel County].
  - Harford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Pleasantville [Harford County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Pleasantville [Washington County].
- Missouri
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pleasantville [Sullivan County].
- New Jersey
  - Atlantic County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Pleasantville [Atlantic County].
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Pleasantville [Cumberland County].
  - Morris County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Pleasantville [Morris County].
- New York
  - Chautauqua County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Pleasantville [Chautauqua County].
  - Westchester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Pleasantville [Westchester County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Pleasantville.
- North Carolina
  - Moore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Pleasantville [Moore County].
  - Rockingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Pleasantville [Rockingham County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Pleasantville.
- Ohio
  - Coshocton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Pleasantville [Coshocton County].
  - Fairfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Pleasantville [Fairfield County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Pleasantville.
- Pennsylvania
  - Allegheny County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pleasantville [Allegheny County].
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pleasantville [Bedford County].
  - Berks 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 Pleasantville [Berks County].
  - Venango County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pleasantville [Venango County].
- Tennessee
  - Hickman County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pleasantville [Hickman County].
- West Virginia
  - Marion 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 West Virginia community of Pleasantville [Marion County].
- Wisconsin
  - Trempealeau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Pleasantville [Trempealeau County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pleasantville ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pleasantville:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in Fulton 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 Fulton County.

Copperas Creek
	Phillips
Duncan's Mills	Put Creek

East Oakie	Rapatee Station

Jackson Grove	South Liverpool
	Spoon River
Leaman
	Troy Mills
Middle Fork
Middle Grove	Wee-ma-tuk Hills
	Woodstock
Oak Mound

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Pleasantville 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/