Do you know of Ocean Beach ???

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

Our sources for Ocean Beach (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 Ocean Beach other than they indicate that Ocean Beach would be found somewhere in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1889.

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 Ocean Beach ...

We found six communities that share the name Ocean Beach.

There is one other community in New Jersey which is also named Ocean Beach.

Beyond New Jersey, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In New Jersey ...
- Ocean County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Ocean Beach [Ocean County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - San Diego County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ocean Beach [San Diego County].
- Florida
  - Brevard 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 Ocean Beach [Brevard County].
  - Saint Johns 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 Florida community of Ocean Beach [Saint Johns County].
- New York
  - Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ocean Beach [Suffolk County].
- Washington
  - Cowlitz 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 Washington community of Ocean Beach [Cowlitz County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ocean Beach ...

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

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

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.

Allenhurst	Lake Como
Allen's	Lakeview
Allentown	Little Silver
Asbury Gardens	Long Branch City
Atlantic Highlands	Lorillard Beach
Atlantic	Lorillard
Avon-by-the-Sea
Avon	Manasquan Shores
	Manasquan
Baird	Marlboro Village
Bay View	Matawan
Belmar Gardens	Milhurst
Black Mills	Monmouth Beach
Bradley Beach	Monmouth Heights
Brielle	Monmouth Junction
	Monmouth Park
Campbell's Junction
Cedar Beach	New Shrewsbury
Cliffwood Station	North Asbury Park
Clover Hill
Coburgh	Oak Shades
Colonial Terrace	Ocean Port
Como	Ocean
Coxes Corner	Oceanport
	Old Manor
Davis
Deal Beach	Pleasure Bay
Deal
Dupont	Red Bank
	River Plaza
Eatontown	Rumson Beach
Englishtown
	Sandy Hook Pier
Fair Haven	Sandy Hook
Farmingdale	Sea Girt
Fort Monmouth	Seabright
Freehold	Shafto Corners
	Shark River
Harmony Park	South
Highland Beach	Spring Lake Beach
Highlands	Spring Lake
Highview Park	Suburban
Hollywood
Holmdel Village	Tinton Falls
Hopping	Tracey's
Howell	Turkey

Ideal Beach	Upper Freehold
Indian Springs
Interlaken	Wall
	West Long Branch
Keansburg	West Ocean Grove
Key East	Westboro
Keyport
	Yellow Brook

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 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 Ocean Beach 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.

<2>

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

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