Do you know of Bloomingdale ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Bloomingdale, so we are uncertain whether Bloomingdale 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 Bloomingdale would be found somewhere in Henrico County, Virginia.

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 Bloomingdale ...

We found 23 communities that share the name Bloomingdale.

Within Virginia, the name Bloomingdale is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 22 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bloomingdale [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Chatham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bloomingdale [Chatham County].
- Illinois
  - DuPage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bloomingdale [DuPage County].
- Indiana
  - Parke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bloomingdale [Parke County].
- Kansas
  - Barton 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 Kansas community of Bloomingdale [Barton County].
  - McPherson 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 Kansas community of Bloomingdale [McPherson County].
- Kentucky
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bloomingdale [Clark County].
- Maryland
  - Queen Anne's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bloomingdale [Queen Anne's County].
- Massachusetts
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Bloomingdale [Worcester County].
- Michigan
  - Van Buren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bloomingdale [Van Buren County].
- New Jersey
  - Passaic 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 Bloomingdale [Passaic County].
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Bloomingdale [Somerset County].
- New York
  - Essex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bloomingdale [Essex County].
- North Carolina
  - Robeson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bloomingdale [Robeson County].
- Ohio
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bloomingdale [Jefferson County].
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bloomingdale [Wayne County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bloomingdale.
- Pennsylvania
  - Carbon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bloomingdale [Carbon County].
  - Lancaster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bloomingdale [Lancaster County].
  - Luzerne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bloomingdale [Luzerne County].
- South Dakota
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Bloomingdale [Clay County].
- Tennessee
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bloomingdale [Sullivan County].
- Wisconsin
  - Vernon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bloomingdale [Vernon County].

More Orphans in Henrico 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 Henrico County.

Acca	Marion Hill
Azalea Court	Mayfield
	Meadow Station
Battery Park	Meadow
Beechwood Park	Meadowood
Beverly Hills	Meadowview
Binwell	Media Park
Boudar Gardens	Mitchell's
Boulton	Montezuma Gardens
Britton Hills Farms	Montrose Terrace
Brookland Gardens	Monument Heights
Bryan Park	Morrison Farms
Bryan Parkway
Bungalow City	National Heights
Byrd	North Run Hills

Cedar Lawn	Oak View
Chamberlayne North
Coal Hill	Pinedale
Confederate Heights	Providence Park
Courtney
	Richmond
Dickensdale	Ridge
	Rio Vista
East Richmond	Robbin Dale Farms
Eastmoreland	Robin Park
Elba	Roosevelt Park
	Roxbury
Farmington	Ruthland
Fort Alexander
Fort Brady	Scottie Farms
Fort Gilmer	Shenandoah Place
Fort Gregg	Shreveport Park
Fort Harrison	Skipwith Farms
Fort Hill	Sleepy Hollow Estates
Fort Hoke	Solomons
Fort Johnson	Staples Mill
	Stratford Village
Glen Allen Heights	Stukeley Hall Farms
Grantland	Sunset Heights
Greengate
	Thistle
Haxall	Tuckahoe Park
Hermitage Court
Hermitage Farms	Valentine Hills
Hermitage Park
Highland Gardens	West End
Hunslett	Westbourne
Huntington	Westdale
Hutton Heights	Westwood
	White Oak
Kemps Place	Wildwood
Kings Hill	Willow Lawn
Korah	Windcliff
	Winder
Lakeside Hills	Windsordale
Laurel Dell	Wistar Farms
Laurel Heights
	York Manor
Malvern Hill

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Bloomingdale 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.