Do you know of Rockford ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rockford. 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 Rockford.
Our sources for Rockford (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 Rockford other than they indicate that Rockford would be found somewhere in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1880 and closed in 1904.
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 Rockford ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Rockford.
Within South Carolina, the name Rockford is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 24 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Coosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Rockford [Coosa County].
- Arkansas
- California
- Tulare County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rockford [Tulare County].
- Idaho
- Bingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Rockford [Bingham County].
- Illinois
- Winnebago County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Rockford [Winnebago County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Rockford [Floyd County].
- Kansas
- Bourbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Rockford [Bourbon County].
- Michigan
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Rockford [Kent County].
- Minnesota
- Wright County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Rockford [Wright County].
- Missouri
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rockford [Carroll County].
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rockford [Cass County].
- Chariton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rockford [Chariton County].
- Montana
- Fergus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Rockford [Fergus County].
- Nebraska
- Gage County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Rockford [Gage County].
- North Carolina
- Surry County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Rockford [Surry County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Rockford.
- Oregon
- Hood River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Rockford [Hood River County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Rockford.
- Tennessee
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rockford [Blount County].
- Texas
- Lamar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rockford [Lamar County].
- Washington
- Spokane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Rockford [Spokane County].
- West Virginia
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Rockford [Harrison County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rockford ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rockford:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rockford - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of South Carolina (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg 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 Rockford 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |