Do you know of Prospect Park ???

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

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

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 Prospect Park ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Prospect Park.

There are two communities within Illinois that are also named Prospect Park.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Cook 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 Illinois community of Prospect Park [Cook County].
- DuPage 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 Illinois community of Prospect Park [DuPage County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Los Angeles 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 California community of Prospect Park [Los Angeles County].
- Iowa
  - Pottawattamie 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 Prospect Park [Pottawattamie County].
- Kansas
  - Sedgwick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Prospect Park [Sedgwick County].
- Minnesota
  - Ramsey 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 Minnesota community of Prospect Park [Ramsey County].
- New York
  - Kings 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 Prospect Park [Kings County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Cameron County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Prospect Park [Cameron County].
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Prospect Park [Delaware County].
  - Northampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Prospect Park [Northampton County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Prospect Park [Salt Lake County].

More Orphans in Saint Clair 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 Saint Clair County.

Alma	Monsanto
Atlee Ogles	Morris Hills
	Mud Creek
Bellevue Park
Benevolent Heights	New Pittsburgh
Bluff View Park
Booster Station	O'Fallon Depot
Branch	O'Fallon Junction
Bridge Junction	Oakland
	Old Harmony
Carrier
Centreville Station	Parkfield Terrace
Chateau Terrace	Pittsburg
Chenot Place	Plaza
Church	Pontiac Station
Cone	Powder Creek
Coral Gable	Powder Mill Woods
Country Club Place	Prairie du Pont
Country Club Terrace
Crest Haven	Raib's
Creswell	Rankin
Crossroad Terrace	Relay Station
Crown	Ridge Prairie Heights
	Ridge Prairie
Dyke	Risdon
	River Incline
Emerald Terrace	Rock Spring
Enterprise Mine	Round House

Fairview	Schuremann
Four Mile Crossing	Scott Air Force Base
	Scott
Grassland	Scottdale
Griswold Place	Sellinger
	South Junction
Hannover	Stone Quarry
Harmony	Stookey Station
High Prairie	Stookey
High Switch	Sugar Loaf Heights
Highwood Terrace	Sugar Loaf
Highwood	Summerson
Hollandia
Homestead	Tolson
	Twelve Mile Prairie
Illinoistown	Twilight Terrace

Johnson's Mine	Valley Junction
	Villa Hills
Knecht Mines	Viner

Lake	Walmar
Lakeland Hills	Ward's
Lansdowne	West Belleville
Lenz	White Oak
Lovejoy	Willard
Lowland
	Yoch's
Maplewood

Footnotes ...

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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 Prospect Park 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.