Do you know of Pike ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pike. 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 Pike.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Pike was 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 Pike would be found somewhere in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Communities Also Named Pike ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Pike.
Within Maryland, the name Pike is unique.
Beyond Maryland, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Pike.
- California
- Sierra County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Pike [Sierra County].
- Georgia
- Gilmer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Pike [Gilmer County].
- Montgomery 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 Georgia community of Pike [Montgomery County].
- Illinois
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Pike [Pike County].
- Indiana
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Pike [Boone County].
- Kansas
- Wabaunsee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Pike [Wabaunsee County].
- Missouri
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pike [Carter County].
- New Hampshire
- Grafton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Pike [Grafton County].
- New York
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Pike [Wyoming County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Love County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Pike [Love County].
- Oregon
- Yamhill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Pike [Yamhill County].
- Texas
- Collin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pike [Collin County].
- West Virginia
- Ritchie County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Pike [Ritchie County].
- British Columbia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pike ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pike:
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Pike.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 24/61375 (Place Name: Pike)
County: Montgomery (FIPS State/County: 24/031)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Pike) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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 Pike 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. |