Do you know of Forks ???

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

We found mention of Forks as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Centre 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.

Communities Also Named Forks ...

We found ten communities that share the name Forks.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Forks.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, eight are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Columbia 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 Pennsylvania community of Forks [Columbia County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Mendocino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Forks [Mendocino County].
- Kentucky
  - Estill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Forks [Estill County].
- Maine
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Forks [Somerset County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Forks.
- New York
  - Cattaraugus 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 New York community of Forks [Cattaraugus County].
  - Erie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Forks [Erie County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Forks.
- Washington
  - Clallam County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Forks [Clallam County].
- Wyoming
  - Crook 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 Wyoming community of Forks [Crook County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Forks ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Centre County ...

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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 Centre County.

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 Forks 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.