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Do you know of Forestville ???

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

We found mention of Forestville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Madison County, Indiana.

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 1855 and closed  in 1871.

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 Forestville ...

We found 24 communities that share the name Forestville.

Within Indiana, the name Forestville is unique.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 22 are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Sonoma County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Forestville [Sonoma County].
    • Connecticut
      • Hartford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Forestville [Hartford County].
      • Tolland 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 Connecticut community of Forestville [Tolland County].
    • Illinois
      • Cook County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Forestville [Cook County].
    • Iowa
      • Delaware County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Forestville [Delaware County].
    • Kentucky
      • Hart County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Forestville [Hart County].
    • Maryland
      • Prince George's County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Forestville [Prince George's County].
    • Michigan
      • Marquette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Forestville [Marquette County].
      • Sanilac County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Forestville [Sanilac County].
    • Minnesota
      • Fillmore County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Forestville [Fillmore County].
    • New York
      • Chautauqua County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Forestville [Chautauqua County].
    • North Carolina
      • Wake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Forestville [Wake County].
    • Ohio
      • Hamilton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Forestville [Hamilton County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Forestville.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Butler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Forestville [Butler County].
      • Chester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Forestville [Chester County].
      • Jefferson 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 Forestville [Jefferson County].
      • Schuylkill County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Forestville [Schuylkill County].
      • Sullivan 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 Forestville [Sullivan County].
    • Quebec
      • 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 Quebec community of Forestville.
    • South Dakota
      • Codington 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 Dakota community of Forestville [Codington County].
    • Virginia
      • Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Forestville [Fairfax County].
      • Shenandoah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Forestville [Shenandoah County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Door County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Forestville [Door County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Forestville ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Madison 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 Madison County.

AladdinJunction
Anderson Crossing 
Anderson East SideLesiure
 Lincoln Heights
Belvidere 
BradburyMechanicsburg
BruinMercury
 Mill Creek
CrossleyMyers
  
Forrest HillsOvid
  
GilmanPipe Creek
Glen EllenProspect
Gravel Pit 
 Stohler
HalfordSycamore Hills
  
InnisdaleUnderwood Meadows
  
Johnson's CrossingWoodbury

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 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 Forestville 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/









 

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