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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. Our sources for Forks (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 Forks other than they indicate that Forks would be found somewhere in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1858 and closed in 1934. 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 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.
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: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Forks - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Forks. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 42/26720 (Place Name: Forks) County: Columbia (FIPS State/County: 42/037) Class: U8 Identifies a populated place (in this case, Forks) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). More Orphans in Columbia 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 Columbia County. Footnotes ...
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