Do you know of Green River ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Green River, so we are uncertain whether Green River 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 Green River would be found somewhere in Muhlenberg 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 Green River ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Green River.

Within Kentucky, the name Green River is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, nine are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Green River.
- Illinois
  - Henry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Green River [Henry County].
- Michigan
  - Antrim County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Green River [Antrim County].
- Mississippi
  - Tunica County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Green River [Tunica County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Green River.
- New York
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Green River [Columbia County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Green River.
- Tennessee
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Green River [Wayne County].
- Utah
  - Emery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Green River [Emery County].
- Vermont
  - Windham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Green River [Windham County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Green River [King County].
- Wyoming
  - Sweetwater County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Green River [Sweetwater County].

More Orphans in Muhlenberg 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 Muhlenberg 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 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 Green River 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.