Do you know of East Oakland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about East Oakland. 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 East Oakland.<1>
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of East Oakland, so we are uncertain whether East Oakland is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that East Oakland would be found somewhere in Garrett County, Maryland.
Communities Also Named East Oakland ...
We found two communities that share the name East Oakland.
Within Maryland, the name East Oakland is unique.
Beyond Maryland, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Alameda County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of East Oakland [Alameda County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of East Oakland.
- California
More Orphans in Garrett 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 Garrett 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. |