Do you know of Ravenswood ???

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

Our sources for Ravenswood (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Ravenswood other than they indicate that Ravenswood 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 Ravenswood ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Ravenswood.

There is one other community in New York which is also named Ravenswood.

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

Communities Located In New York ...
- Albany 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 New York community of Ravenswood [Albany County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
  - Kent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Ravenswood [Kent County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ravenswood [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Richmond 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 Georgia community of Ravenswood [Richmond County].
- Louisiana
  - Lafourche Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Ravenswood [Lafourche Parish].
- Michigan
  - Monroe 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 Michigan community of Ravenswood [Monroe County].
- Missouri
  - Jackson 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 Missouri community of Ravenswood [Jackson County].
  - Nodaway County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Ravenswood [Nodaway County].
- North Carolina
  - Davidson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ravenswood [Davidson County].
  - Henderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ravenswood [Henderson County].
  - Mecklenburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ravenswood [Mecklenburg County].
  - Randolph County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ravenswood [Randolph County].
  - Rockingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ravenswood [Rockingham County].
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ravenswood [Wayne County].
- South Carolina
  - Richland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ravenswood [Richland County].
  - York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ravenswood [York County].
- Tennessee
  - Rutherford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Ravenswood [Rutherford County].
- Texas
  - Brazos County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Ravenswood [Brazos County].
- Virginia
  - Fairfax County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ravenswood [Fairfax County].
  - Prince William County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ravenswood [Prince William County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ravenswood ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ravenswood - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Queens 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 Queens County.

Albertson's	Laurel Hill
Aqueduct	Lawrence Station
Arverne-by-the-Sea	Lawrence
Atlantic Park	Locust Valley
Auburndale	Long Beach

Baldwin	Manhassett
Barnum's Island	Maple Grove
Bay Terrace	Massapequa
Bayville Station	Merrick
Bayville	Mineola
Beach Channel
Bellmore	New Hyde Park
Bethpage	Newtown
Borough Hall	Nichols Siding
Broadway
	Ocean Point
Central Park	Oceanus
Cold Spring	Old Westbury
Corona - Elmhurst	Oyster Bay
Corona Park
Creedmoor	Pearsall's
	Penny Bridge
Dunta	Plainview
	Plaza
East Norwich	Point Lookout
East Rockaway	Pomonok
East Williston	Port Washington
Elmont
Evergreen	Queensbridge

Farmingdale	The Raunt
Floral Park	Ravenswood
Forest Park	Rockaway Beach
Fort Totten	Rockville Centre
Foster's Meadow	Roslyn
Freeport
Fremont	Sea Cliff Station
	Sea Cliff
Garden City	Seaford
Glen Cove	South Richmond Hill
Glen Head	Springfield
Glendale Junction	Syosset
Glendale Station
Goose Creek	Thomaston
	Trainsmeadow
Hall
Hempstead	Valley Stream
Hewlett's
Hicksville	Wantagh
Hollis Court	Westbury Station
Holliswood	Whitestone Landing
Horace Harding	Willetts Point
Hyde Park	Winfield
	Wood Haven
Inwood	Woodbury
	Woodhaven Junction
Jericho	Woodsburgh
	Woolsey

Footnotes ...

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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 Ravenswood 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.