Do you know of Greenmount ???

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

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

We found six communities that share the name Greenmount.

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

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

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Greenmount [Adams County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Greenmount [New Castle County].
- Kentucky
  - Laurel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Greenmount [Laurel County].
- Maryland
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Greenmount [Carroll County].
- Ohio
  - 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 Ohio community of Greenmount [Montgomery County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Greenmount.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Greenmount ...

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

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Greenmount.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/31112 (Place Name: Greenmount)

County: Philadelphia (FIPS State/County: 42/101)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Greenmount) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Greenmount 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.