Do you know of River Vale ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about River Vale. 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 River Vale.
Our sources for River Vale (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of River Vale other than they indicate that River Vale would be found somewhere in Lawrence County, Indiana.
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 River Vale ...
We found one communities that share the name River Vale.
Within Indiana, the name River Vale is unique.
Beyond Indiana, there is another community also named River Vale in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New Jersey
- Bergen County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of River Vale [Bergen County].
- New Jersey
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for River Vale ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about River Vale:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for River Vale - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Lawrence 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 Lawrence County.