Do you know of Woodstock ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Woodstock. 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 Woodstock.
We found mention of Woodstock as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fulton 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 1843 and closed in 1852.
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 Woodstock ...
We found 40 communities that share the name Woodstock.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Woodstock.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 35 are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- McHenry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Woodstock [McHenry County].
- McHenry County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Bibb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Woodstock [Bibb County].
- California
- Alameda County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Woodstock [Alameda County].
- Colorado
- Gunnison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Woodstock [Gunnison County].
- Connecticut
- Windham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Woodstock [Windham County].
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Jackson 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 Indiana community of Woodstock [Jackson County].
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Woodstock [Marion County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Woodstock [Pulaski County].
- Maine
- Oxford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Woodstock [Oxford County].
- Maryland
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Woodstock [Howard County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Pipestone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Woodstock [Pipestone County].
- Missouri
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Woodstock [Saint Louis County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Woodstock.
- New Hampshire
- Grafton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Woodstock [Grafton County].
- New Jersey
- Morris County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Woodstock [Morris County].
- New York
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Woodstock.
- North Carolina
- Beaufort County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Woodstock [Beaufort County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Woodstock.
- Ohio
- Champaign County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Woodstock [Champaign County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Woodstock.
- Oregon
- Multnomah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Woodstock [Multnomah County].
- Pennsylvania
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Woodstock [Franklin County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Woodstock.
- South Carolina
- Berkeley 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 South Carolina community of Woodstock [Berkeley County].
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Woodstock [Charleston County].
- Tennessee
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Woodstock [Shelby County].
- Texas
- Bowie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Woodstock [Bowie County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Woodstock [Salt Lake County].
- Vermont
- Windsor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Woodstock [Windsor County].
- Virginia
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Woodstock [Middlesex County].
- Northampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Woodstock [Northampton County].
- Richmond City
- 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 Virginia community of Woodstock [Richmond City].
- Shenandoah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Woodstock [Shenandoah County].
- Wisconsin
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Woodstock [Richland County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Woodstock ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Woodstock:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
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 Fulton 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 Fulton County.
| Copperas Creek | |
| Phillips | |
| Duncan's Mills | Pleasantville |
| Put Creek | |
| East Oakie | |
| Rapatee Station | |
| Jackson Grove | |
| South Liverpool | |
| Leaman | Spoon River |
| Middle Fork | Troy Mills |
| Middle Grove | |
| Wee-ma-tuk Hills | |
| Oak Mound |
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 Woodstock 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/ |