RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Missouri >> Jackson County >> Laurel HeightsSitemap...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
Missouri


The Commemorative Quarter for Missouri







Do you know of Laurel Heights ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Laurel Heights, so we are uncertain whether Laurel Heights is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Laurel Heights would be found somewhere in Jackson County, Missouri.

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 Laurel Heights ...

We found five communities that share the name Laurel Heights.

Within Missouri, the name Laurel Heights is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Laurel Heights [Douglas County].
    • South Carolina
      • Greenville County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Laurel Heights [Greenville County].
    • Texas
      • Bexar 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 Texas community of Laurel Heights [Bexar County].
    • Virginia
      • Henrico 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 Virginia community of Laurel Heights [Henrico County].
    • Washington
      • Snohomish 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 Washington community of Laurel Heights [Snohomish County].

More Orphans in  Jackson 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 Jackson County.

Belt JunctionMissey
Big BlueMount Vernon Junction
Blue Summit 
Blue ValleyNortheast
Blue VueNorwood
  
CarytownParkway
CecilPixleys
Center SquareProspect
Central 
Chicago JunctionRavenwood
Clay CityRidgeway
CoburgRock Creek
Country Club 
CrispSaint Clair
 Sheffield
DiamondSouth Troost
DrakemoreSoutheast
 Spring Branch
Elm ParkSunny Slope
ElmSwope Park
Evanston ParkSwope
  
GlendaleTarnsey
Green ValleyTerra Cotta
 Terrace Lake Gardens
Hayes Park 
HeimsUnity
Hy-Tex 
 Verona Hills
James Crews 
 Waldo Junction
Kansas City JunctionWaldo Park
Kersey CoatesWashington Park
 Washington
Leeds JunctionWayne
Leon Mercer JordanWestminister
Lotawana LakeWhitcomb
 Wildwood Lake
Martin ParkWornall
Midas 

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Laurel Heights 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.









 

Copyright 2024
All Rights Reserved

Thank you for visiting our website.

In closing, please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write: Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024