Do you know of Rock Run ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rock Run. 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 Rock Run.
We found mention of Rock Run as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Stephenson 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 1840 and closed in 1879.
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 Rock Run ...
We found ten communities that share the name Rock Run.
Within Illinois, the name Rock Run is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Rock Run [Cherokee County].
- Maryland
- Ohio
- Coshocton 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 Rock Run [Coshocton County].
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rock Run [Delaware County].
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny 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 Rock Run [Allegheny County].
- Centre 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 Pennsylvania community of Rock Run [Centre County].
- Chester 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 Pennsylvania community of Rock Run [Chester County].
- Virginia
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Rock Run [Henry County].
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rock Run ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rock Run:
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
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Stephenson 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 Stephenson County.
| Buckeye | |
| Howardsville | |
| Cockrell | |
| Legal | |
| Dunbar | |
| Duncanon | Nevada |
| East Junction | Silver Creek |
| Everts | Stevens |
| Florence Station | Wadham |
| Fountain Creek |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Rock Run 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/ |