Do you know of Holland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Holland. 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 Holland.
We found mention of Holland as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1830 and closed in 1862.
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 Holland ...
We found 33 communities that share the name Holland.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Holland.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 32 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 32 communities, 31 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Bucks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Holland [Bucks County].
- Bucks County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Leon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Holland [Leon County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Effingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Holland [Effingham County].
- Indiana
- Dubois County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Holland [Dubois County].
- Iowa
- Grundy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Holland [Grundy County].
- Kansas
- Dickinson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Holland [Dickinson County].
- Kentucky
- Allen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Holland [Allen County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Holland.
- Massachusetts
- Hampden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Holland [Hampden County].
- Michigan
- Ottawa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Holland [Ottawa County].
- Minnesota
- Pipestone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Holland [Pipestone County].
- Missouri
- Pemiscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Holland [Pemiscot County].
- Montana
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Holland [Gallatin County].
- Nebraska
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Holland [Lancaster County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Wake County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Holland [Wake County].
- Ohio
- Lucas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Holland [Lucas County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Holland.
- Oregon
- Josephine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Holland [Josephine County].
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Bell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Holland [Bell County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Holland [Salt Lake County].
- Vermont
- Orleans County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Holland [Orleans County].
- Virginia
- Suffolk City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Holland [Suffolk City].
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Holland [Brown County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Holland ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Holland:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Venango 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 Venango County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Holland 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |