Do you know of Plainville ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Plainville, so we are uncertain whether Plainville 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 Plainville would be found somewhere in Providence County, Rhode Island.

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 Plainville ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Plainville.

Within Rhode Island, the name Plainville is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - Hartford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Plainville [Hartford County].
- Georgia
  - Gordon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Plainville [Gordon County].
- Illinois
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Plainville [Adams County].
- Indiana
  - Davies's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Plainville [Davies's County].
- Kansas
  - Rooks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Plainville [Rooks County].
- Massachusetts
  - Bristol County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Plainville [Bristol County].
  - Hampden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Plainville [Hampden County].
  - Hampshire County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Plainville [Hampshire County].
  - Norfolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Plainville [Norfolk County].
- New Jersey
  - Gloucester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Plainville [Gloucester County].
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Plainville [Somerset County].
- New York
  - Onondaga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Plainville [Onondaga County].
- Ohio
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Plainville [Hamilton County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Plainville.
- Pennsylvania
  - Lebanon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Plainville [Lebanon County].
- Wisconsin
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Plainville [Adams County].

More Orphans in Providence 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 Providence County.

Footnotes ...

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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 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 Plainville 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.