Do you know of Point Pleasant ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Point Pleasant. 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 Point Pleasant.
We found mention of Point Pleasant as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Vermilion 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 1853 and closed in 1874.
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 Point Pleasant ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Point Pleasant.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Point Pleasant.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 27 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Point Pleasant [Jasper County].
- Jasper County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Sacramento County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Point Pleasant [Sacramento County].
- Florida
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Point Pleasant [Marion County].
- Iowa
- Hardin 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 Iowa community of Point Pleasant [Hardin County].
- Kentucky
- Ohio County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Point Pleasant [Ohio County].
- Louisiana
- Claiborne Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Point Pleasant [Claiborne Parish].
- Morehouse Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Point Pleasant [Morehouse Parish].
- Plaquemines Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Point Pleasant [Plaquemines Parish].
- Tensas Parish
- 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 Louisiana community of Point Pleasant [Tensas Parish].
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Point Pleasant [Anne Arundel County].
- Massachusetts
- Worcester 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 Massachusetts community of Point Pleasant [Worcester County].
- Missouri
- New Madrid County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Point Pleasant [New Madrid County].
- New Jersey
- Ocean 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 New Jersey community of Point Pleasant [Ocean County].
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Point Pleasant [Sussex County].
- New York
- Chautauqua County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Point Pleasant [Chautauqua County].
- Monroe 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 New York community of Point Pleasant [Monroe County].
- Ohio
- Clermont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Point Pleasant [Clermont County].
- Gallia 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 Ohio community of Point Pleasant [Gallia County].
- Guernsey County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Point Pleasant [Guernsey County].
- Hocking County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Point Pleasant [Hocking County].
- Paulding County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Point Pleasant [Paulding County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Point Pleasant.
- Pennsylvania
- Bucks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Point Pleasant [Bucks County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Point Pleasant.
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Point Pleasant [Charleston County].
- Tennessee
- Cocke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Point Pleasant [Cocke County].
- Decatur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Point Pleasant [Decatur County].
- Virginia
- Bland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Point Pleasant [Bland County].
- West Virginia
- Mason County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Point Pleasant [Mason County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Point Pleasant ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Point Pleasant:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Vermilion 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 Vermilion 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Point Pleasant 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/ |