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Do you know of Hill Church ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hill Church. 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 Hill Church.<1>

Our sources for Hill Church (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 Hill Church other than they indicate that Hill Church would be found somewhere in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1864 and closed  in 1910.

Communities Also Named Hill Church ...

We found one communities that share the name Hill Church.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Hill Church.

Beyond Pennsylvania.

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hill Church [Washington County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hill Church ...

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

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 Hill Church - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Hill Church.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/34688   (Place Name: Hill Church)

County: Berks     (FIPS State/County: 42/011)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Hill Church) 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  Berks 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 Berks County.

Albany StationLiscum
AllianceLorah
AlsaceLower Bern
AtholLower Heidelberg
 Lynoak
Barto'sLynwood
Belt Line Junction 
BerksManatawny Station
Birdsboro' StationMelrose
BittenbenderMountain Sunset
Black BearMountain
Bower's Station 
BrowerNaomi
BrumfieldvilleNora
 North Reading
Caernarvon 
CalciumObold
ClinganOrrton
Colebrookdale Station 
CootstownPassmore
CumruPerry
 Pike Township
DeLongPikesville
DenglersPleasantville
DrebelbisPoplar Neck
Driversville 
 Reading Gardens
East BerkleyReinert
EdenburgRobeson
EsterlyRobesonia Furnaces
EtonRohnersburg
Exeter StationRolling Hills
  
FarviewSchuylkill Bend
FetherolffsvilleSchweyers
FurnaceScullhill
 Shamrock
GehmanSheerlund Forest
Geiger's MillsShoemakersville Station
GreenfieldsSouth Evansville
 South Mountain
Hamburgh StationSpring Valley
HampdenSwoyers
HamptonSylvan Dell
Hendleton 
Hiester's MillTemple Station
Hummels StoreTulpehocken
  
KissingerUpper Bern
KlapperthalUpper Berne
Kricktown 
KutzvilleWalter's Park
 West Monocacy
LesherWetzel
LichtyWhite Bear
Lincoln HeightsWyomissing Junction

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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