Do you know of Rock Island ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Rock Island, so we are uncertain whether Rock Island 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 Rock Island would be found somewhere in Brown 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 Rock Island ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Rock Island.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Rock Island.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Grant 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 Kansas community of Rock Island [Grant County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Broward County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Rock Island [Broward County].
  - Collier County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Rock Island [Collier County].
- Idaho
  - Washington 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 Idaho community of Rock Island [Washington County].
- Illinois
  - Rock Island County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Rock Island [Rock Island County].
- Indiana
  - Marion 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 Rock Island [Marion County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Rock Island.
- Massachusetts
  - Norfolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Rock Island [Norfolk County].
- Nevada
  - Storey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Rock Island [Storey County].
- Oklahoma
  - Canadian 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 Oklahoma community of Rock Island [Canadian County].
  - Le Flore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Rock Island [Le Flore County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Rock Island.
- Tennessee
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rock Island [Warren County].
- Texas
  - Colorado County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rock Island [Colorado County].
  - Liberty County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rock Island [Liberty County].
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rock Island [Marion County].
  - Polk 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 Texas community of Rock Island [Polk County].
  - Waller County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rock Island [Waller County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rock Island [Washington County].
- Virginia
  - Buckingham 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 Rock Island [Buckingham County].
- Washington
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Rock Island [Douglas County].

More Orphans in Brown 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 Brown County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Island 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.