Do you know of Highwood ???

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

Our sources for Highwood (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 Highwood other than they indicate that Highwood would be found somewhere in Bergen County, New Jersey.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1923.

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 Highwood ...

We found eight communities that share the name Highwood.

Within New Jersey, the name Highwood is unique.

Beyond New Jersey, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, seven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Highwood.
- Connecticut
  - New Haven County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Highwood [New Haven County].
- Illinois
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Highwood [Lake County].
  - Saint Clair 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 Illinois community of Highwood [Saint Clair County].
- Michigan
  - Gladwin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Highwood [Gladwin County].
- Minnesota
  - Ramsey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Highwood [Ramsey County].
- Montana
  - Chouteau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Highwood [Chouteau County].
- Wisconsin
  - Dane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Highwood [Dane County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Highwood ...

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

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 Highwood - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

George#&160;F. Cram Map of New Jersey (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Highwood.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 34/31680 (Place Name: Highwood)

County: Bergen (FIPS State/County: 34/003)

Class: U6

Identifies a populated place (ie- Highwood) that is wholly or substantially located outside the boundaries of any incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) that has an authoritative common name recognized by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Bergen 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 Bergen 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 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 Highwood 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/