Do you know of Hicksville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hicksville. 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 Hicksville.
Our sources for Hicksville (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 Hicksville other than they indicate that Hicksville would be found somewhere in Queens County, New York.
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 Hicksville ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Hicksville.
There is one other community in New York which is also named Hicksville.
Beyond New York, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In New York ...
- Nassau County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hicksville [Nassau County].
- Nassau County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Phillips County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hicksville [Phillips County].
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hicksville [White County].
- California
- Sacramento County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Hicksville [Sacramento County].
- Kentucky
- Graves County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hicksville [Graves County].
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Hicksville [Lawrence County].
- Massachusetts
- Bristol 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 Massachusetts community of Hicksville [Bristol County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Hicksville.
- North Carolina
- Rutherford 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 North Carolina community of Hicksville [Rutherford County].
- Ohio
- Defiance County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hicksville [Defiance County].
- Pennsylvania
- Armstrong County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hicksville [Armstrong County].
- Tennessee
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Hicksville [Madison County].
- Virginia
- Bland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hicksville [Bland County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hicksville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hicksville:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Hicksville - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Queens 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 Queens 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 Hicksville 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. |