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Do you know of Union Church ???

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

Our sources for Union Church (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 Union Church other than they indicate that Union Church would be found somewhere in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1875 and closed  in 1909.

Communities Also Named Union Church ...

We found four communities that share the name Union Church.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Union Church is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Mobile County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Union Church [Mobile County].
    • Louisiana
      • Bienville Parish
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Union Church [Bienville Parish].
    • Mississippi
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Union Church [Jefferson County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Milwaukee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Union Church [Milwaukee County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Union Church ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Huntingdon County ...

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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 Huntingdon County.

AllentonJames
Aughwick Mills 
 Krider
Barnett 
Barre ForgeLocke Valley
BeaverLodema
BeersvilleLotta Brove
Broad TopLoveville Station
Brownsville 
 Mapleton Depot
Cedar RockMcNeal
ClairMorrell
Coffee Run 
Colerain ForgeNew Pleasant Grove
Coles SummitNorrace
CoraNorth Baree
Cornpropst 
Cornpropst's MillsOakland
Cove StationOtelia
Cove 
CrawfordReeds
Crooked Creek 
Crystal SpringsSarah
 Shade Valley
Eagle FoundryShirley
East BarreShoeberger
East Broad TopShy Beaver
 Smithfield
Globe RunSouth Huntingdon
GorsuchSpruce
GoshornStarr
Grafton 
Greenwood FurnaceTell
 Thisbe
Hare's Valley 
Hill ValleyValley Point
HostlerVineyard Mills
Hubelsville 
Hundred SpringWest Barre
 West Mooresville
JacobWildwood
James CreekWoodbine

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>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 Union Church 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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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