Do you know of Rileyville ???

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

Our sources for Rileyville (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Rileyville other than they indicate that Rileyville would be found somewhere in Saline County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1874 and closed  in 1911.

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 Rileyville ...

We found five communities that share the name Rileyville.

There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Rileyville.

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

• Communities Located In Illinois ...
  • Williamson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Rileyville [Williamson County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Harlan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rileyville [Harlan County].
  • New Jersey
    • Hunterdon County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Rileyville [Hunterdon County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Wayne County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rileyville [Wayne County].
  • Virginia
    • Page County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Rileyville [Page County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rileyville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rileyville - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

Rand McNally Map of Illinois (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Rand McNally Map (1881)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Saline 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 Saline County.