Do you know of Granville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Granville. 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 Granville.<1>
We found mention of Granville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1854 and closed in 1855.
Communities Also Named Granville ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Granville.
Within New Jersey, the name Granville is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 27 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Greenlee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Granville [Greenlee County].
- Illinois
- Madison County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Granville [Madison County].
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Granville [Putnam County].
- Indiana
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Granville [Delaware County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Jewell County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Granville [Jewell 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 Granville [Saline County].
- Washington 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 Granville [Washington County].
- Massachusetts
- Hampden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Granville [Hampden County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Grundy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Granville [Grundy County].
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Granville [Livingston County].
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Granville [Monroe County].
- Nebraska
- Platte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Granville [Platte County].
- New York
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Granville [Washington County].
- North Dakota
- McHenry County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Granville [McHenry County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Granville.
- Ohio
- Licking County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Granville [Licking County].
- Pennsylvania
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Granville.
- Tennessee
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Granville [Jackson County].
- Texas
- Angelina County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Granville [Angelina County].
- Vermont
- Addison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Granville [Addison County].
- Virginia
- Charles City County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Granville [Charles City County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Monongalia County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Granville [Monongalia County].
- Wisconsin
- Milwaukee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Granville [Milwaukee County].
- Yukon
- Please visit our profile page for the Yukon community of Granville.
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Granville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Granville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
More Orphans in Monmouth 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 Monmouth County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Granville 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |