Do you know of Prospect Hill ???

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

Our sources for Prospect Hill (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 Prospect Hill other than they indicate that Prospect Hill would be found somewhere in Clay County, Missouri.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1864 and closed in 1890.

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 Prospect Hill ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Prospect Hill.

There is one other community in Missouri which is also named Prospect Hill.

Beyond Missouri, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Missouri ...
- Saint Louis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Prospect Hill [Saint Louis County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - Fairfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Prospect Hill [Fairfield County].
  - Hartford 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 Connecticut community of Prospect Hill [Hartford County].
- Iowa
  - Des Moines 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 Iowa community of Prospect Hill [Des Moines County].
- Kansas
  - Washington 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 Prospect Hill [Washington County].
- Massachusetts
  - Middlesex 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 Massachusetts community of Prospect Hill [Middlesex County].
  - Plymouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Prospect Hill [Plymouth County].
- New York
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Prospect Hill [Orange County].
  - Saratoga 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 New York community of Prospect Hill [Saratoga County].
- North Carolina
  - Caswell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Prospect Hill [Caswell County].
- Ohio
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Prospect Hill [Delaware County].
  - Gallia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Prospect Hill [Gallia County].
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Prospect Hill [Hamilton County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Prospect Hill.
- Pennsylvania
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Prospect Hill [Jefferson County].
  - Lackawanna 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 Pennsylvania community of Prospect Hill [Lackawanna County].
- Tennessee
  - Cannon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Prospect Hill [Cannon County].
- Vermont
  - Rutland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Prospect Hill [Rutland County].
- Virginia
  - Fairfax 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 Prospect Hill [Fairfax County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Prospect Hill ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

William Bradley Map (1866)
Published by William M. Bradley and Brothers

More Orphans in Clay 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 Clay 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 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 Prospect Hill 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/