Do you know of Idlewild ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Idlewild. 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 Idlewild.
Our sources for Idlewild (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Idlewild other than they indicate that Idlewild would be found somewhere in Allegheny 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.
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 Idlewild ...
We found 31 communities that share the name Idlewild.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Idlewild is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Del Norte County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Idlewild [Del Norte County].
- Placer County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Idlewild [Placer County].
- Tulare County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Idlewild [Tulare County].
- Colorado
- Illinois
- Alexander 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 Illinois community of Idlewild [Alexander County].
- Jefferson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Idlewild [Jefferson County].
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Idlewild [Lake County].
- Indiana
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Idlewild [Harrison County].
- Kentucky
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Idlewild [Boone County].
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Idlewild [Lake County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Idlewild [Nye County].
- New Mexico
- Colfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Idlewild [Colfax County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- South Carolina
- Greenville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Idlewild [Greenville County].
- Tennessee
- Gibson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Idlewild [Gibson County].
- Maury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Idlewild [Maury County].
- McMinn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Idlewild [McMinn County].
- Texas
- Bexar 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 Texas community of Idlewild [Bexar County].
- Dallas County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Idlewild [Dallas County].
- Wisconsin
- Door County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Idlewild [Door County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Idlewild ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Idlewild:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Idlewild - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
More Orphans in Allegheny 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 Allegheny 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 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 Idlewild 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. |