Do you know of White Bear ???

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

We found mention of White Bear as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Communities Also Named White Bear ...

We found three communities that share the name White Bear.

Within Pennsylvania, the name White Bear is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Minnesota
  - Ramsey County
  - 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 Minnesota community of White Bear [Ramsey County].
- Missouri
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of White Bear [Marion County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of White Bear.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for White Bear ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for White Bear - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

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.

The FIPS database contains an entry for White Bear.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/84480 (Place Name: White Bear (Scarlets Mill))

County: Berks (FIPS State/County: 42/011)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, White Bear) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Berks 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 Berks County.

Albany Station	Lincoln Heights
Alliance	Liscum
Alsace	Lorah
Athol	Lower Bern
	Lower Heidelberg
Barto's	Lynoak
Belt Line Junction	Lynwood
Berks
Birdsboro' Station	Manatawny Station
Bittenbender	Melrose
Black Bear	Mountain Sunset
Bower's Station	Mountain
Brower
Brumfieldville	Naomi
	Nora
Caernarvon	North Reading
Calcium
Clingan	Obold
Colebrookdale Station	Orrton
Cootstown
Cumru	Passmore
	Perry
DeLong	Pike Township
Denglers	Pikesville
Drebelbis	Pleasantville
Driversville	Poplar Neck

East Berkley	Reading Gardens
Edenburg	Reinert
Esterly	Robeson
Eton	Robesonia Furnaces
Exeter Station	Rohnersburg
	Rolling Hills
Farview
Fetherolffsville	Schuylkill Bend
Furnace	Schweyers
	Scullhill
Gehman	Shamrock
Geiger's Mills	Sheerlund Forest
Greenfields	Shoemakersville Station
	South Evansville
Hamburgh Station	South Mountain
Hampden	Spring Valley
Hampton	Swoyers
Hendleton	Sylvan Dell
Hiester's Mill
Hill Church	Temple Station
Hummels Store	Tulpehocken

Kissinger	Upper Bern
Klapperthal	Upper Berne
Kricktown
Kutzville	Walter's Park
	West Monocacy
Lesher	Wetzel
Lichty	Wyomissing Junction

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 White Bear 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.