Do you know of Nottingham ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Nottingham. 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 Nottingham.
Our sources for Nottingham (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Nottingham other than they indicate that Nottingham would be found somewhere in Prince George's County, Maryland.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1796 and closed in 1927.
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 Nottingham ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Nottingham.
There are two communities within Maryland that are also named Nottingham.
Beyond Maryland, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Maryland ...
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Nottingham [Anne Arundel County].
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Nottingham [Baltimore County].
- Anne Arundel County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Nottingham [Jefferson County].
- Talladega County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Nottingham [Talladega County].
- Georgia
- Cobb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Nottingham [Cobb County].
- Indiana
- Wells County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Nottingham [Wells County].
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Nottingham [Rockingham County].
- New Jersey
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Nottingham [Mercer County].
- Ohio
- Cuyahoga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Nottingham [Cuyahoga County].
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Nottingham [Harrison County].
- Pennsylvania
- Bucks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Nottingham [Bucks County].
- Chester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Nottingham [Chester County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Nottingham.
- Texas
- Harris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Nottingham [Harris County].
- Virginia
- Northampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Nottingham [Northampton County].
- Richmond City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Nottingham [Richmond City].
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Nottingham [Scott County].
- West Virginia
- Kanawha 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 West Virginia community of Nottingham [Kanawha County].
- Pocahontas County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Nottingham [Pocahontas County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Nottingham ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Nottingham:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Nottingham - Services available: had a Post Office, Express Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (1803)
Printed by order of the Post Master General
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Prince George's 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 Prince George's 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Nottingham 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |