Do you know of Rockdale ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rockdale. 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 Rockdale.
We found mention of Rockdale as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Crawford 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 1822 and closed in 1868.
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 Rockdale ...
We found 37 communities that share the name Rockdale.
There are seven communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Rockdale.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 35 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Bucks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Bucks County].
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Butler County].
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Delaware County].
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Franklin County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Jefferson County].
- Lackawanna County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Lackawanna County].
- Lehigh County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Lehigh County].
- Bucks County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colorado
- Chaffee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Rockdale [Chaffee County].
- Fremont 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 Colorado community of Rockdale [Fremont County].
- Florida
- Miami-Dade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Rockdale [Miami-Dade County].
- Georgia
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rockdale [Fulton County].
- Illinois
- Will County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Rockdale [Will County].
- Indiana
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Rockdale [Franklin County].
- Iowa
- Dubuque County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Rockdale [Dubuque County].
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Rockdale [Washington County].
- Massachusetts
- Berkshire 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 Massachusetts community of Rockdale [Berkshire County].
- Bristol County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Rockdale [Bristol County].
- Norfolk 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 Massachusetts community of Rockdale [Norfolk County].
- Missouri
- Camden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rockdale [Camden County].
- New York
- Chenango County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Rockdale [Chenango County].
- North Carolina
- Cleveland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Rockdale [Cleveland County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Rockdale.
- Ohio
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rockdale [Butler County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Rockdale.
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Washington
- King County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Rockdale [King County].
- Lincoln 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 Rockdale [Lincoln County].
- West Virginia
- Brooke County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Rockdale [Brooke County].
- Wisconsin
- Dane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Rockdale [Dane County].
- Wyoming
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rockdale ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rockdale:
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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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 Rockdale 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/ |