Do you know of Rock Spring ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rock Spring. 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 Rock Spring.<1>

Our sources for Rock Spring (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Rock Spring other than they indicate that Rock Spring would be found somewhere in Washington County, Missouri.

Communities Also Named Rock Spring ...

We found eight communities that share the name Rock Spring.

Within Missouri, the name Rock Spring is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Etowah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Rock Spring [Etowah County].
- Georgia
  - Clayton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rock Spring [Clayton County].
  - Walker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rock Spring [Walker County].
- Kansas
  - Ellsworth County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Rock Spring [Ellsworth County].
  - Saline County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Rock Spring [Saline County].
- Kentucky
  - Webster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rock Spring [Webster County].
- Maryland
  - Harford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Rock Spring [Harford County].
- North Carolina
  - Pitt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Rock Spring [Pitt County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rock Spring ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Washington 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 Washington County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Rock Spring 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.