Do you know of Blue Rock ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blue Rock. 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 Blue Rock.<1>
Our sources for Blue Rock (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 Blue Rock other than they indicate that Blue Rock would be found somewhere in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849 and closed in 1899.
Communities Also Named Blue Rock ...
We found six communities that share the name Blue Rock.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Blue Rock.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- North Carolina
- Yancey County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Blue Rock [Yancey County].
- Ohio
- Muskingum County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Blue Rock [Muskingum County].
- Texas
- Hidalgo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Blue Rock [Hidalgo County].
- West Virginia
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Blue Rock [Randolph County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Rock ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Blue Rock:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Blue Rock - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Chester 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 Chester 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> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Blue Rock 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |