Do you know of Eastland ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Eastland, so we are uncertain whether Eastland 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 Eastland would be found somewhere in Mason County, Kentucky.

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 Eastland ...

We found nine communities that share the name Eastland.

There is one other community in Kentucky which is also named Eastland.

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

Communities Located In Kentucky ...
- Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Eastland [Fayette County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Louisiana
  - East Baton Rouge Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Eastland [East Baton Rouge Parish].
- Mississippi
  - Sunflower County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Eastland [Sunflower County].
- North Carolina
  - Caswell 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 North Carolina community of Eastland [Caswell County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Lancaster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Eastland [Lancaster County].
- Tennessee
  - White County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Eastland [White County].
- Texas
  - Eastland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Eastland [Eastland County].
- Utah
  - San Juan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Eastland [San Juan County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Eastland [King County].

More Orphans in Mason 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 Mason County.

Bernard	Needmore
Broshears	North Fork

Charleston Bottoms	Peed
Clark	Plumbville

Hamer	Summit
Helena Station
	Tangletown
Kennard	Tuckahoe

Mill Creek	Wedonia

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 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 Eastland 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.