Do you know of Laurel Hill ???

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

We found mention of Laurel Hill as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Somerset 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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1826 and closed in 1849.

Communities Also Named Laurel Hill ...

We found 27 communities that share the name Laurel Hill.

There are four communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Laurel Hill.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Laurel Hill [Fayette County].
- Lancaster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Laurel Hill [Lancaster County].
- Philadelphia County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Laurel Hill [Philadelphia County].
- Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Laurel Hill [Washington County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - New London County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Laurel Hill [New London County].
- Florida
  - Okaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Laurel Hill [Okaloosa County].
- Georgia
  - Richmond County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Laurel Hill [Richmond County].
- Louisiana
  - West Feliciana Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Laurel Hill [West Feliciana Parish].
- Mississippi
  - Neshoba County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Laurel Hill [Neshoba County].
- New York
  - Queens County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Laurel Hill [Queens County].
- North Carolina
  - Buncombe County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Laurel Hill [Buncombe County].
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Laurel Hill [Lincoln County].
  - Richmond 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 North Carolina community of Laurel Hill [Richmond County].
  - Scotland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Laurel Hill [Scotland County].
- Ohio
  - Athens County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Laurel Hill [Athens County].
- Rhode Island
  - Providence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Laurel Hill [Providence County].
- South Carolina
  - Charleston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Laurel Hill [Charleston County].
  - Dorchester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Laurel Hill [Dorchester County].
  - Georgetown County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Laurel Hill [Georgetown County].
- Tennessee
  - Chester County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Laurel Hill [Chester County].
  - DeKalb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Laurel Hill [DeKalb County].
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Laurel Hill [Lawrence County].
- Texas
  - San Jacinto County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Laurel Hill [San Jacinto County].
- Virginia
  - Augusta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Laurel Hill [Augusta County].
  - Lunenburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Laurel Hill [Lunenburg County].
  - Shenandoah County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Laurel Hill [Shenandoah County].
- West Virginia
  - Laurel Hill #1
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Laurel Hill.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Laurel Hill ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Somerset 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 Somerset County.

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>	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.
<3>	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 Laurel Hill 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.
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/