Do you know of Oak Forest ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Oak Forest. 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 Oak Forest.<1>

We found mention of Oak Forest as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wayne County, Kentucky.

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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1842 and closed in 1851.

Communities Also Named Oak Forest ...

We found 27 communities that share the name Oak Forest.

There is one other community in Kentucky which is also named Oak Forest.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Kentucky ...
- Allen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Oak Forest [Allen County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Oak Forest [Jefferson County].
- Arkansas
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Oak Forest [Lee County].
  - Lonoke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Oak Forest [Lonoke County].
  - Phillips County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Oak Forest [Phillips County].
  - Pulaski County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Oak Forest [Pulaski County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Oak Forest [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Chatham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Oak Forest [Chatham County].
  - Clayton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Oak Forest [Clayton County].
- Illinois
  - Cook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Oak Forest [Cook County].
- Indiana
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Oak Forest [Franklin County].
- Louisiana
  - East Baton Rouge Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Oak Forest [East Baton Rouge Parish].
  - Terrebonne Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Oak Forest [Terrebonne Parish].
- Maryland
  - Baltimore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Oak Forest [Baltimore County].
- North Carolina
  - Buncombe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oak Forest [Buncombe County].
  - Iredell County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oak Forest [Iredell County].
  - Johnston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oak Forest [Johnston County].
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oak Forest [Wayne County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Oak Forest [Greene County].
- South Carolina
  - Charleston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Oak Forest [Charleston County].
  - Florence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Oak Forest [Florence County].
  - Spartanburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Oak Forest [Spartanburg County].
- Texas
  - Gonzales County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Oak Forest [Gonzales County].
  - Harris County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Oak Forest [Harris County].
- Virginia
  - Chesterfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Oak Forest [Chesterfield County].
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Oak Forest [Cumberland County].
  - Hanover County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Oak Forest [Hanover County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oak Forest ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Oak Forest:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Wayne 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 Wayne County.

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.
<3>	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 Oak Forest 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.
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/