Do you know of Kensington ???

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

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

We found 28 communities that share the name Kensington.

Within Virginia, the name Kensington is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 26 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Maricopa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Kensington [Maricopa County].
- California
  - Contra Costa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Kensington [Contra Costa County].
- Connecticut
  - Hartford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Kensington [Hartford County].
- Georgia
  - Chatham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kensington [Chatham County].
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kensington [Columbia County].
  - Walker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kensington [Walker County].
- Illinois
  - Cook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Kensington [Cook County].
  - Will County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Kensington [Will County].
- Kansas
  - Smith County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kensington [Smith County].
- Kentucky
  - Boone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Kensington [Boone County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kensington [Anne Arundel County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kensington [Montgomery County].
- Michigan
  - Oakland 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 Michigan community of Kensington [Oakland County].
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Kensington [Wayne County].
- Minnesota
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Kensington [Douglas County].
- New Hampshire
  - Rockingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Kensington [Rockingham County].
- New York
  - Erie 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 York community of Kensington [Erie County].
  - Kings County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Kensington [Kings County].
  - Nassau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Kensington [Nassau County].
- Ohio
  - Columbiana County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Kensington [Columbiana County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Philadelphia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Kensington [Philadelphia County].
  - Westmoreland 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 Kensington [Westmoreland County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Kensington.
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Kensington.
- South Carolina
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Kensington [Berkeley County].
  - Georgetown County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Kensington [Georgetown County].
  - Orangeburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Kensington [Orangeburg County].
- Tennessee
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Kensington [Knox County].

More Orphans in ...

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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 .

Albemarle
Armistead	Lafayette Park
	Lansdale Gardens
Bartee	Liberty Park
Belmont Place	Lindenwood
Belvedere	Logan Park
Benefit
Benmoreel	Maple Hall
Bowers' Hill	Meadowbrook Terrace
Bowling Park	Milan
Brentwood Forest	Morningside
Bruce
Bunting	Nansemond Heights
	New Towne South
Camp Elmore	Norfolk Gardens
Centenary	Northwest
Centreville
Chesterfield Heights	Oakleaf Park
Christian's Mills	Overbrook
Churchland
Cornland	Pinehurst
Cottage Heights	Portsmouth
Cromwell	Princess Anne Park
Customhouse	Princess Anne

DeBree	River Front
Deep Creek	Riverpoint
Dennys	Riverside
Diggs Park	Roberts Park
Duncan	Rose Gardens
	Rosedale
East Fairmont
Ellsworth	Saint Brides
Euwance Park	Sewells Point
	Suburban Park
Fenttress	Sussex at Norfolk
Fleet
Fort Norfolk	Tanner's Creek
Foundation Park	Tidewater Junction
Foxhall	Tidewater Park
	Tipperton Place
Gertie	Titustown
Gilmerton	Tuckers
Gowrie Park
Grassfield	View Colony
Great Bridge	Villa Heights
	Virginia Place
Hearing
Hickory Ground	Wallaceton
Hickory	Water Works Branch
Hodges ferry	Wedgwood
Hyde Park	West Annex
	West Norfolk
Indian Creek	Westover
	Williams
Kenilworth	Wright
Kent Park
Kingman	Young Park

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 Kensington 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 . 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.