Do you know of Spring Grove ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Spring Grove. 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 Spring Grove.
Our sources for Spring Grove (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 Spring Grove other than they indicate that Spring Grove would be found somewhere in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1828 and closed in 1910.
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 Spring Grove ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Spring Grove.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Spring Grove.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spring Grove [York County].
- York County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Lake 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 Florida community of Spring Grove [Lake County].
- Georgia
- Stewart County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Spring Grove [Stewart County].
- Illinois
- McHenry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Spring Grove [McHenry County].
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Spring Grove [Warren County].
- Indiana
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Spring Grove [Wayne County].
- Iowa
- Des Moines County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Spring Grove [Des Moines County].
- Kansas
- Cherokee 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 Kansas community of Spring Grove [Cherokee County].
- Miami 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 Kansas community of Spring Grove [Miami County].
- Kentucky
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Spring Grove [Union County].
- Maryland
- Wicomico County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Spring Grove [Wicomico County].
- Michigan
- Allegan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Spring Grove [Allegan County].
- Minnesota
- Houston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Spring Grove [Houston County].
- Missouri
- Dallas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Spring Grove [Dallas County].
- Ohio
- Columbiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Spring Grove [Columbiana County].
- Hamilton 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 Ohio community of Spring Grove [Hamilton County].
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Spring Grove [Richland County].
- Rhode Island
- Providence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Spring Grove [Providence County].
- South Carolina
- Laurens County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Spring Grove [Laurens County].
- South Dakota
- Roberts County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Spring Grove [Roberts County].
- Virginia
- Chesterfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Spring Grove [Chesterfield County].
- Roanoke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Spring Grove [Roanoke County].
- Surry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Spring Grove [Surry County].
- Wisconsin
- Green Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Spring Grove [Green Lake County].
- Florida
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Spring Grove ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Spring Grove:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Spring Grove - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Lancaster 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 Lancaster 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 Spring Grove 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/ |