Do you know of Valley Junction ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Valley Junction, so we are uncertain whether Valley Junction 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 Valley Junction 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 Valley Junction ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Valley Junction.

Within Illinois, the name Valley Junction is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Valley Junction [Shelby County].
- Arkansas
  - Drew County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Valley Junction [Drew County].
- Iowa
  - Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Valley Junction [Polk County].
- North Dakota
  - LaMoure 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 North Dakota community of Valley Junction [LaMoure County].
- Ohio
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Valley Junction [Hamilton County].
  - Tuscarawas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Valley Junction [Tuscarawas County].
- Oregon
  - Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Valley Junction [Polk County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Lackawanna 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 Valley Junction [Lackawanna County].
  - York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Valley Junction [York County].
- Texas
  - Robertson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Valley Junction [Robertson County].
- Wisconsin
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Valley Junction [Monroe 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	Prospect Park
Crest Haven
Creswell	Raib's
Crossroad Terrace	Rankin
Crown	Relay Station
	Ridge Prairie Heights
Dyke	Ridge Prairie
	Risdon
Emerald Terrace	River Incline
Enterprise Mine	Rock Spring
	Round House
Fairview
Four Mile Crossing	Schuremann
	Scott Air Force Base
Grassland	Scott
Griswold Place	Scottdale
	Sellinger
Hannover	South Junction
Harmony	Stone Quarry
High Prairie	Stookey Station
High Switch	Stookey
Highwood Terrace	Sugar Loaf Heights
Highwood	Sugar Loaf
Hollandia	Summerson
Homestead
	Tolson
Illinoistown	Twelve Mile Prairie
	Twilight Terrace
Johnson's Mine
	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 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 Valley Junction 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.