Do you know of Oakwood Heights ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Oakwood Heights. 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 Oakwood Heights.<1>

We found mention of Oakwood Heights as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Richmond County, New York.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1902 and closed in 1917.

Communities Also Named Oakwood Heights ...

We found two communities that share the name Oakwood Heights.

Within New York, the name Oakwood Heights is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Oakwood Heights [Hillsborough County].
- Illinois
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Oakwood Heights [Madison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oakwood Heights ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Oakwood Heights.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/54364 (Place Name: Oakwood Heights)

County: Richmond (FIPS State/County: 36/085)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Oakwood Heights) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in Richmond 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 Richmond County.

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/