Do you know of Rider ???

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

Our sources for Rider (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 Rider other than they indicate that Rider would be found somewhere in Baltimore County, Maryland.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1913.

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 Rider ...

We found five communities that share the name Rider.

Within Maryland, the name Rider is unique.

Beyond Maryland, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four 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 Rider.
  • Iowa
    • Polk County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Rider [Polk County].
  • Nevada
    • Nye County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Rider [Nye County].
  • North Dakota
    • Golden Valley County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Rider [Golden Valley County].
  • West Virginia
    • Harrison County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Rider [Harrison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rider ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rider - Services available: had a Post Office, Express Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Baltimore County ...

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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 Baltimore County.