Do you know of Hills Grove ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hills 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 Hills Grove.

Our sources for Hills 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 Hills Grove other than they indicate that Hills Grove would be found somewhere in Kent County, Rhode Island.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1949.

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 Hills Grove ...

We found three communities that share the name Hills Grove.

Within Rhode Island, the name Hills Grove is unique.

Beyond Rhode Island, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • McDonough County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hills Grove [McDonough County].
  • North Carolina
    • Surry County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hills Grove [Surry County].
  • Ohio
    • Delaware County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Hills Grove [Delaware County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hills Grove ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

More Orphans in  Kent 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 Kent County.