Do you know of Orchard ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Orchard. 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 Orchard.
Our sources for Orchard (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 Orchard other than they indicate that Orchard would be found somewhere in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1898 and closed in 1904.
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 Orchard ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Orchard.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Orchard is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Mobile County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Orchard [Mobile County].
- Arkansas
- Perry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Orchard [Perry County].
- California
- Sonoma County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Orchard [Sonoma County].
- Colorado
- Delaware
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Orchard [Kent County].
- Idaho
- Ada County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Orchard [Ada County].
- Iowa
- Mitchell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Orchard [Mitchell County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Plaquemines Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Orchard [Plaquemines Parish].
- Michigan
- Nebraska
- Antelope County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Orchard [Antelope County].
- North Carolina
- Guilford County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Orchard [Guilford County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Texas
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Orchard [Davis County].
- Virginia
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Orchard [Montgomery County].
- Washington
- Walla Walla 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 Washington community of Orchard [Walla Walla County].
- Yakima 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 Washington community of Orchard [Yakima County].
- West Virginia
- Brooke County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Orchard [Brooke County].
- Monroe 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 West Virginia community of Orchard [Monroe County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Orchard ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Orchard:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Luzerne 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 Luzerne 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Orchard 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/ |