Do you know of Red Bank ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Red Bank. 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 Red Bank.
Our sources for Red Bank (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 Red Bank other than they indicate that Red Bank would be found somewhere in Monmouth 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 Red Bank ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Red Bank.
There is one other community in New Jersey which is also named Red Bank.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In New Jersey ...
- Gloucester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Red Bank [Gloucester County].
- Gloucester County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Red Bank [Lawrence County].
- Arkansas
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Red Bank [Boone County].
- California
- Tehama County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Red Bank [Tehama County].
- Georgia
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Red Bank [Cherokee County].
- Indiana
- Vanderburgh County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Red Bank [Vanderburgh County].
- Missouri
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Red Bank [Douglas County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Red Bank.
- Ohio
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Red Bank [Hamilton County].
- Pennsylvania
- Centre 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 Red Bank [Centre County].
- Clarion 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 Pennsylvania community of Red Bank [Clarion County].
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Red Bank [Union County].
- South Carolina
- Colleton County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Red Bank [Colleton County].
- Edgefield 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 South Carolina community of Red Bank [Edgefield County].
- Lexington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Red Bank [Lexington County].
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Wyoming
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Red Bank ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Red Bank:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Red Bank - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
Shell Oil Road Map for New Jersey (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company
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> | 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 Red Bank 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. |