Do you know of Zion ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Zion. 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 Zion.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Zion, so we are uncertain whether Zion is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Zion would be found somewhere in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
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 Zion ...
We found 33 communities that share the name Zion.
There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Zion.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 32 are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Centre County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Zion [Centre County].
- Franklin County
- Centre County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Izard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Zion [Izard County].
- Florida
- Dade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Zion [Dade County].
- Georgia
- Appling County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Zion [Appling County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Adair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Zion [Adair County].
- Kentucky
- Grant 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 Kentucky community of Zion [Grant County].
- Greenup 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 Kentucky community of Zion [Greenup County].
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Zion [Henderson County].
- Todd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Zion [Todd County].
- Louisiana
- Grant Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Zion [Grant Parish].
- Maryland
- Cecil County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Zion [Cecil County].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Pontotoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Zion [Pontotoc County].
- Missouri
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Zion [Madison County].
- New Jersey
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Zion [Somerset County].
- North Carolina
- Cleveland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Zion [Cleveland County].
- Iredell County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Zion [Iredell County].
- Yadkin 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 North Carolina community of Zion [Yadkin County].
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- South Carolina
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Zion [Marion County].
- Tennessee
- Maury County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Zion [Maury County].
- Utah
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Zion [Washington County].
- Virginia
- Louisa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Zion [Louisa County].
- West Virginia
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Zion [Upshur County].
- Wisconsin
- Winnebago County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Zion [Winnebago County].
More Orphans in Luzerne 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 Luzerne 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 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 Zion 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. |