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Do you know of Black Bear ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Black Bear, so we are uncertain whether Black Bear is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Black Bear would be found somewhere in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Communities Also Named Black Bear ...

We found three communities that share the name Black Bear.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Black Bear is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Siskiyou County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Black Bear [Siskiyou County].
    • Idaho
      • Shoshone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Black Bear [Shoshone County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Noble County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Black Bear [Noble County].

More Orphans in  Berks 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 Berks County.

Albany StationLiscum
AllianceLorah
AlsaceLower Bern
AtholLower Heidelberg
 Lynoak
Barto'sLynwood
Belt Line Junction 
BerksManatawny Station
Birdsboro' StationMelrose
BittenbenderMountain Sunset
Bower's StationMountain
Brower 
BrumfieldvilleNaomi
 Nora
CaernarvonNorth Reading
Calcium 
ClinganObold
Colebrookdale StationOrrton
Cootstown 
CumruPassmore
 Perry
DeLongPike Township
DenglersPikesville
DrebelbisPleasantville
DriversvillePoplar Neck
  
East BerkleyReading Gardens
EdenburgReinert
EsterlyRobeson
EtonRobesonia Furnaces
Exeter StationRohnersburg
 Rolling Hills
Farview 
FetherolffsvilleSchuylkill Bend
FurnaceSchweyers
 Scullhill
GehmanShamrock
Geiger's MillsSheerlund Forest
GreenfieldsShoemakersville Station
 South Evansville
Hamburgh StationSouth Mountain
HampdenSpring Valley
HamptonSwoyers
HendletonSylvan Dell
Hiester's Mill 
Hill ChurchTemple Station
Hummels StoreTulpehocken
  
KissingerUpper Bern
KlapperthalUpper Berne
Kricktown 
KutzvilleWalter's Park
 West Monocacy
LesherWetzel
LichtyWhite Bear
Lincoln HeightsWyomissing Junction

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>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 Black Bear 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.









 

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