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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Risley. 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 Risley.
Our sources for Risley (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 Risley other than they indicate that Risley would be found somewhere in Atlantic County, New Jersey.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1895 and closed in 1948.
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 Risley ...
We found two communities that share the name Risley.
Within New Jersey, the name Risley is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Risley ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Risley:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
George#&160;F. Cram Map of New Jersey (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Risley.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 34/63210 (Place Name: Risley)
County: Atlantic (FIPS State/County: 34/001)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Atlantic County ...
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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 Atlantic County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |