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Do you know of Floral Park ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Floral Park, so we are uncertain whether Floral Park 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 Floral Park would be found somewhere in Somerset County, New Jersey.

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 Floral Park ...

We found six communities that share the name Floral Park.

Within New Jersey, the name Floral Park is unique.

Beyond New Jersey, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Connecticut
      • Middlesex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Floral Park [Middlesex County].
    • Florida
      • Palm Beach 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 Florida community of Floral Park [Palm Beach County].
    • Montana
      • Silver Bow County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Floral Park [Silver Bow County].
    • New York
      • Nassau County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Floral Park [Nassau County].
      • Queens 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 Floral Park [Queens 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 Floral Park.

More Orphans in  Somerset 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 Somerset County.

BernardsvilleRaritan
Bound BrookRead Valley
BridgewaterRebel Hill
 Ricefield
Far HillsRocky Hill
FieldstoneRoycefield
  
GalliaSloping Hills
Galloping HillSomerville
Green BrookSouth Bound Brook
 Stoutsburgh
Homestead VillageSunset Hill
  
Manville - FinderneTewsbury
Millstone 
 Warren
North PlainfieldWest Brunswick
NorthBranch DepotWest Neshanic
 Weston - Manville
Port Reading JunctionWoodville
  

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 Floral Park 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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