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Do you know of Oakland Park ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Oakland Park, so we are uncertain whether Oakland Park 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 Oakland Park would be found somewhere in Wyandotte County, Kansas.

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 Oakland Park ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Oakland Park.

Within Kansas, the name Oakland Park is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Broward County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Oakland Park [Broward County].
      • Hillsborough County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Oakland Park [Hillsborough County].
      • Lake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Oakland Park [Lake County].
    • Georgia
      • Chatham County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Oakland Park [Chatham County].
      • Muscogee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Oakland Park [Muscogee County].
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Oakland Park [Baltimore County].
    • Missouri
      • Jasper County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Oakland Park [Jasper County].
    • North Carolina
      • Gaston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oakland Park [Gaston County].
      • Rowan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oakland Park [Rowan County].
    • Ohio
      • Franklin 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 Ohio community of Oakland Park [Franklin County].
    • Virginia
      • Northampton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Oakland Park [Northampton County].

More Orphans in  Wyandotte 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 Wyandotte County.

ArmourdaleKaw Junction
ArmstrongKaw Valley
 Kinney Heights
Baker's Park 
BarkerLeo
Barker's Tank 
BelleviewMahoney
BirminghamMenager
Braman Hill 
Brenner HeightsNew Philadelphia
 North Rosedale
Calorific 
Camp NaishPackers
CollegePetersburg
Conner City 
Coronado SpringsRamapo
Crestline GardensRiverview
 Rosedale
East Wyandotte 
EmmetSaratoga Springs
 Saviersville
FairdaleSecondine
Forest LakeShawnee Prophet's Town
Four HousesSix Mile
 South Park
Glen Park 
GlenroseToadaloup
GrinterTooley's Ferry
 Tourtelotte
Half Acre Mission 
Highland CrestUpper Haddam
Highland Park 
HoranifVance
 Vedder
Island Creek 
 West Argentine
JunctionWestfield
JuniperWhite Church
 Wyandotte West
Kanview 

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Oakland Park 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.









 

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