Do you know of Clover Hill ???

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

Our sources for Clover 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 Clover Hill other than they indicate that Clover Hill would be found somewhere in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1834 and closed in 1930.

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 Clover Hill ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Clover Hill.

There is one other community in New Jersey which is also named Clover Hill.

Beyond New Jersey, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In New Jersey ...
- Monmouth 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 Jersey community of Clover Hill [Monmouth County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Lowndes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Clover Hill [Lowndes County].
- Maryland
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Clover Hill [Frederick County].
- Mississippi
  - Coahoma County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Clover Hill [Coahoma County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Clover Hill.
- Ohio
  - Belmont County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clover Hill [Belmont County].
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clover Hill [Perry County].
  - Trumbull County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clover Hill [Trumbull 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 Clover Hill.
- Pennsylvania
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Clover Hill [Washington County].
- South Carolina
  - Anderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Clover Hill [Anderson County].
- Tennessee
  - Blount County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Clover Hill [Blount County].
- Virginia
  - Albemarle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Clover Hill [Albemarle County].
  - Prince William County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Clover Hill [Prince William County].
  - Rockingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Clover Hill [Rockingham County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clover Hill ...

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

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

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

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Hunterdon 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 Hunterdon County.

Footnotes ...

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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 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 Clover 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/