Do you know of Cross Keys ???

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

Our sources for Cross Keys (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 Cross Keys other than they indicate that Cross Keys would be found somewhere in Crook County, Oregon.

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 Cross Keys ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Cross Keys.

Within Oregon, the name Cross Keys is unique.

Beyond Oregon, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Macon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cross Keys [Macon County].
- Delaware
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Cross Keys [Sussex County].
- Georgia
  - Bibb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cross Keys [Bibb County].
  - DeKalb 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 Cross Keys [DeKalb County].
- Louisiana
  - Tensas Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Cross Keys [Tensas Parish].
- Missouri
  - Saint Louis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cross Keys [Saint Louis County].
- New Jersey
  - Gloucester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Cross Keys [Gloucester County].
- Ohio
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Cross Keys [Monroe County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cross Keys [Adams County].
  - Blair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cross Keys [Blair County].
  - Bucks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cross Keys [Bucks County].
  - Juniata County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cross Keys [Juniata County].
- South Carolina
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Cross Keys [Union County].
- Tennessee
  - Williamson 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 Tennessee community of Cross Keys [Williamson County].
- Virginia
  - Rockingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Cross Keys [Rockingham County].
  - Southampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Cross Keys [Southampton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cross Keys ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Crook 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 Crook County.

Bend
Burnt Ranch	Liberty

Camp Polk	Mitchell
Crescent	Mowry
Crook
	Price
Desert	Prineville Southeast

Fife	Sisters
	Stewart
Grizzly
	Waldron
Hay Creek	Warm Springs
Haystack	Wheeler

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Cross Keys 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.