Do you know of Willowbrook ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Willowbrook, so we are uncertain whether Willowbrook 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 Willowbrook would be found somewhere in Kendall 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 Willowbrook ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name Willowbrook.

There are two communities within Illinois that are also named Willowbrook.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Located In Illinois ...
- DuPage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Willowbrook [DuPage County].
- Will County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Willowbrook [Will County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Autauga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Willowbrook [Autauga County].
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Willowbrook [Madison County].
- British Columbia
  - 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 British Columbia community of Willowbrook.
- California
  - Los Angeles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Willowbrook [Los Angeles County].
- Colorado
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Willowbrook [Jefferson County].
- Kansas
  - Reno County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Willowbrook [Reno County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Willowbrook [Anne Arundel County].
  - Montgomery 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 Maryland community of Willowbrook [Montgomery County].
- New York
  - Richmond County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Willowbrook [Richmond County].
- Ohio
  - Coshocton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Willowbrook [Coshocton County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Delaware 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 Willowbrook [Delaware County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Willowbrook.
- South Carolina
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Willowbrook [Berkeley County].
- Utah
  - Weber County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Willowbrook [Weber County].
- Virginia
  - Louisa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Willowbrook [Louisa County].
  - Suffolk City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Willowbrook [Suffolk City].

More Orphans in Kendall 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 Kendall County.

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 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 Willowbrook 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.