Do you know of Willow Grove ???

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

We found mention of Willow Grove as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Sumner County, Tennessee.

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 1837 and closed in 1858.

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 Willow Grove ...

We found 31 communities that share the name Willow Grove.

There are three communities within Tennessee that are also named Willow Grove.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 29 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Willow Grove [Bedford County].
- Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Willow Grove [Clay County].
- Haywood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Willow Grove [Haywood County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
  - Kent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Willow Grove [Kent County].
- Illinois
  - Will County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Willow Grove [Will County].
- Kentucky
  - Bracken County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Willow Grove [Bracken County].
- Louisiana
  - Saint John the Baptist Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Willow Grove [Saint John the Baptist Parish].
- Maryland
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Willow Grove [Worcester County].
- Nevada
  - White Pine County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Willow Grove [White Pine County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Willow Grove.
- New Jersey
  - Cumberland 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 New Jersey community of Willow Grove [Cumberland County].
  - Salem County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Willow Grove [Salem County].
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Willow Grove [Warren County].
- New York
  - Cayuga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Willow Grove [Cayuga County].
  - Rockland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Willow Grove [Rockland County].
  - Yates County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Willow Grove [Yates County].
- Ohio
  - Belmont 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 Ohio community of Willow Grove [Belmont County].
  - Columbiana County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Willow Grove [Columbiana County].
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Willow Grove [Lawrence County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Willow Grove.
- Pennsylvania
  - Allegheny 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 Willow Grove [Allegheny County].
  - Columbia 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 Pennsylvania community of Willow Grove [Columbia County].
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Willow Grove [Lawrence County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Willow Grove [Montgomery County].
- Texas
  - Bell 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 Texas community of Willow Grove [Bell County].
  - McLennan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Willow Grove [McLennan County].
  - Shelby 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 Texas community of Willow Grove [Shelby County].
- Virginia
  - Northampton 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 Virginia community of Willow Grove [Northampton County].
  - Shenandoah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Willow Grove [Shenandoah County].
- Washington
  - Cowlitz 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 Washington community of Willow Grove [Cowlitz County].
- West Virginia
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Willow Grove [Jackson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Willow Grove ...

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

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

More Orphans in Sumner 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 Sumner 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 Willow Grove 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/