Do you know of Hoffman ???

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

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

We found sixteen communities that share the name Hoffman.

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

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

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Lehigh 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 Hoffman [Lehigh County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hoffman [Clinton County].
- Maryland
  - Allegany County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Hoffman [Allegany County].
  - Carroll 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 Hoffman [Carroll County].
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Hoffman [Frederick County].
- Michigan
  - Presque Isle 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 Michigan community of Hoffman [Presque Isle County].
- Minnesota
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Hoffman [Grant County].
- Mississippi
  - Holmes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hoffman [Holmes County].
- Missouri
  - Cooper County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hoffman [Cooper County].
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hoffman [Johnson County].
- Montana
  - Park County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Hoffman [Park County].
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Hoffman [Middlesex County].
- New York
  - Niagara County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hoffman [Niagara County].
- North Carolina
  - Richmond County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hoffman [Richmond County].
- Oklahoma
  - Okmulgee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Hoffman [Okmulgee County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hoffman.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hoffman ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in Perry 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 Perry 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 Hoffman 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.