Do you know of Oakview ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Oakview, so we are uncertain whether Oakview 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 Oakview would be found somewhere in Gloucester 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 Oakview ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Oakview.

Within New Jersey, the name Oakview is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
  - Boyd County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Oakview [Boyd County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Oakview.
- Maryland
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Oakview [Montgomery County].
- Missouri
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Oakview [Clay County].
- North Carolina
  - Guilford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oakview [Guilford County].
  - Wake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Oakview [Wake County].
- Ohio
  - Allen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Oakview [Allen County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Delaware 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 Pennsylvania community of Oakview [Delaware County].
- Tennessee
  - Decatur County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Oakview [Decatur County].
  - Haywood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Oakview [Haywood County].
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Oakview [Sullivan County].
- Virginia
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Oakview [Bedford County].
- West Virginia
  - Monongalia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Oakview [Monongalia County].

More Orphans in Gloucester 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 Gloucester 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 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 Oakview 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.