Do you know of Ferndale ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ferndale. 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 Ferndale.
Our sources for Ferndale (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 Ferndale other than they indicate that Ferndale would be found somewhere in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1873 and closed in 1894.
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 Ferndale ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Ferndale.
There are five communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Ferndale.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 27 are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Bucks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ferndale [Bucks County].
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ferndale [Cambria County].
- Chester County
- Northumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ferndale [Northumberland County].
- Schuylkill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ferndale [Schuylkill County].
- Bucks County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Ferndale [Pulaski County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Ferndale.
- California
- Humboldt County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ferndale [Humboldt County].
- Colorado
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Ferndale [Jefferson County].
- Florida
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Ferndale [Lake County].
- Hawaii
- Please visit our profile page for the Hawaii community of Ferndale.
- Illinois
- McHenry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ferndale [McHenry County].
- Indiana
- Parke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ferndale [Parke County].
- Kentucky
- Bell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Ferndale [Bell County].
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Ferndale [Anne Arundel County].
- Michigan
- Muskegon 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 Ferndale [Muskegon County].
- Oakland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ferndale [Oakland County].
- Montana
- Flathead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Ferndale [Flathead County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Ferndale.
- New York
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Ferndale [Sullivan County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Ferndale.
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Lucas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ferndale [Lucas County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ferndale.
- Oregon
- Umatilla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Ferndale [Umatilla County].
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ferndale [Charleston County].
- Florence County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ferndale [Florence County].
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Ferndale [Spartanburg County].
- Washington
- King 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 Washington community of Ferndale [King County].
- Whatcom County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Ferndale [Whatcom County].
- West Virginia
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ferndale ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ferndale:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ferndale - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Lehigh 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 Lehigh County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Ferndale 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |