Do you know of Franklinville ???

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

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

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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1834 and closed in 1835.

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 Franklinville ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Franklinville.

There are two communities within Maryland that are also named Franklinville.

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

Communities Located In Maryland ...
- Baltimore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Franklinville [Baltimore County].
- Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Franklinville [Carroll County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Lowndes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Franklinville [Lowndes County].
- Illinois
  - McHenry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Franklinville [McHenry County].
- Kansas
  - Ness 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 Franklinville [Ness County].
- Missouri
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Franklinville [Shelby County].
- New Jersey
  - Gloucester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Franklinville [Gloucester County].
- New York
  - Cattaraugus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Franklinville [Cattaraugus County].
- North Carolina
  - Randolph County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Franklinville [Randolph County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Huntingdon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Franklinville [Huntingdon County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Franklinville [Montgomery County].
  - Philadelphia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Franklinville [Philadelphia County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Franklinville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Franklinville.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 24/30275 (Place Name: Franklinville)

County: Frederick (FIPS State/County: 24/021)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Franklinville) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Frederick 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 Frederick 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 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 Franklinville 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/