Do you know of Forest Knolls ???

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

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

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 Forest Knolls ...

We found seven communities that share the name Forest Knolls.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Forest Knolls is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Forest Knolls.
- California
  - Marin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Forest Knolls [Marin County].
  - Nevada County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Forest Knolls [Nevada County].
  - San Francisco County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Forest Knolls [San Francisco County].
- Maryland
  - Montgomery 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 Maryland community of Forest Knolls [Montgomery County].
  - Prince George's County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Forest Knolls [Prince George's County].
- New York
  - Westchester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Forest Knolls [Westchester County].

More Orphans in Lancaster 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 Lancaster County.

Alert	Martickville
Andrews Bridge	Martinsville
Arcadia	Mast
	May
Bart	McCaull's Ferry
Behthesda	Meadia Heights
Belair Park	Mellinger
Binkley's Bridge	Mission Hill
Blossom Valley	Mount Vernon
Brentwood	Muddy Creek
Brubaker
Bruckarts	Napierville
	Narron
Chiques	Nickel Mines
Clonmell	Northbrook Hills
Colerain	Norwood
Colonial Park
Conoy	Oakbottom
Copenheffer	Octoraro
Country Club Estates	Old Line
Country Gardens	Orchard Park
Cresswell Station	Overlook
Cully
	Peach Bottom Station
Diller	Peach Bottom Village
Dillerville	Peequea Station
Disstown	Penn
Dorsey's	Pequea Creek
Duryea	Peter's Creek
	Petersburg
Eby's	Pheasant Hill
Edisonville	Piquea
Edwin	Pittsburgh Valley
Ellwerth	Pleasant Valley
	Prospect Gardens
Fairfield
Fishing Creek Station	Rapho
Fishing Creek	Reamstown Heights
Fite's Eddy	Reinhold's Station
Florinel	Reinholdsville
Forest Hills	Rock
Fox Chase	Rockrimmin Ridge
	Rowena
Glen Manor
Glenola	Salisbury
Gockley	Salunga - Landisville
Greenbank	Schock's Mills
Greene	School Lane Hills
Greenfield	School Lane
Groff's Store	Sellers
	Shenk's Ferry
Haines	Shocks Mills
Hancock	Spotswood
Harnish	Spring Garden
Hartman	Spring Grove
Hat	Susquehanna
Hertzler
Hess	Tucquan
Hollinger
Horseshoe Heights	Union Station
Hubers
	Vere Cruz
Junction	Vici
	Village of Olde Hickory
Kready	Vita

Lake Conewago	Watts
Landis Farms	West Earl
Lapark	West Marietta
Lapp's	Westbrook
Laurelville	Wheatland Hills
Leaf Park	Wheatland Mills
Leaman Place Junction	White Mills Station
Ledger	Wild Cat Falls
Liberty Square	Williamstown
Lobata	Willow View Heights
Lyles	Wilshire Hills

Manor	York Furnace

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 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 Forest Knolls 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.