Do you know of Pekin ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pekin. 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 Pekin.
Our sources for Pekin (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 Pekin other than they indicate that Pekin would be found somewhere in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1904 and closed in 1914.
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 Pekin ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Pekin.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Pekin is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Illinois
- Tazewell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Pekin [Tazewell County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Pekin [Jefferson County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Nebraska
- Keya Paha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Pekin [Keya Paha County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Pekin [Montgomery County].
- North Dakota
- Nelson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Pekin [Nelson County].
- Ohio
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Pekin [Carroll County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Pekin [Jefferson County].
- Medina County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Pekin [Medina County].
- Stark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Pekin [Stark County].
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Pekin [Warren County].
- Tennessee
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pekin [Putnam County].
- Vermont
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pekin ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pekin:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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 Pekin 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/ |