Do you know of Church Hill ???

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

We found mention of Church Hill as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Abbeville County, South Carolina.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1808 and closed in 1850.

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 Church Hill ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Church Hill.

There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named Church Hill.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Church Hill [Berkeley County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Tallapoosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Church Hill [Tallapoosa County].
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Church Hill [New Castle County].
- Georgia
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Church Hill [Marion County].
- Kentucky
  - Christian County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Church Hill [Christian County].
- Maryland
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Church Hill [Frederick County].
  - Queen Anne's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Church Hill [Queen Anne's County].
- Mississippi
  - Jefferson 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 Mississippi community of Church Hill [Jefferson County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Church Hill.
- North Carolina
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Church Hill [Warren County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Bucks 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 Pennsylvania community of Church Hill [Bucks County].
  - Chester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Church Hill [Chester County].
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Church Hill [Fayette County].
  - Forest County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Church Hill [Forest County].
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Church Hill [Franklin County].
  - Mifflin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Church Hill [Mifflin County].
- Tennessee
  - Hawkins County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Church Hill [Hawkins County].
- Texas
  - Rusk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Church Hill [Rusk County].
- Virginia
  - Richmond City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Church Hill [Richmond City].
  - Russell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Church Hill [Russell County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Church Hill ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Abbeville 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 Abbeville 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 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 Church Hill 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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