Do you know of Rochester ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rochester. 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 Rochester.
We found mention of Rochester as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Neosho County, Kansas.
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 1869 and closed in 1872.
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 Rochester ...
We found 32 communities that share the name Rochester.
There are five communities within Kansas that are also named Rochester.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 31 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Anderson County
- Atchison County
- Cloud County
- Meade County
- Shawnee County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Rochester.
- California
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rochester [San Bernardino County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Rochester [Fulton County].
- Iowa
- Cedar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Rochester [Cedar County].
- Kentucky
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rochester [Butler County].
- Louisiana
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Rochester [Plymouth County].
- Michigan
- Oakland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Rochester [Oakland County].
- Minnesota
- Olmsted County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Rochester [Olmsted County].
- Missouri
- Andrew County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rochester [Andrew County].
- Montana
- Deer Lodge 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 Montana community of Rochester [Deer Lodge County].
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Rochester [Madison County].
- Nevada
- Pershing County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Rochester [Pershing County].
- New Hampshire
- Strafford County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Rochester [Strafford County].
- New York
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Rochester [Monroe County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Champaign County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rochester [Champaign County].
- Coshocton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rochester [Coshocton County].
- Lorain County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rochester [Lorain County].
- Noble County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rochester [Noble County].
- Pennsylvania
- Beaver County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rochester [Beaver County].
- Texas
- Haskell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rochester [Haskell County].
- Vermont
- Windsor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Rochester [Windsor County].
- Washington
- Thurston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Rochester [Thurston County].
- Wisconsin
- Racine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Rochester [Racine County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rochester ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rochester:
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 Neosho 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 Neosho County.
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 Rochester 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/ |