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Do you know of Oakridge ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Oakridge. 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 Oakridge.<1>

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Oakridge, so we are uncertain whether Oakridge is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Oakridge would be found somewhere in , Virginia.

Communities Also Named Oakridge ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Oakridge.

Within Virginia, the name Oakridge is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Oakridge.
    • California
      • San Joaquin County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Oakridge [San Joaquin County].
    • Colorado
      • Routt County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Oakridge [Routt County].
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Oakridge [Hillsborough County].
    • Maryland
      • Cecil County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Oakridge [Cecil County].
      • Frederick County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Oakridge [Frederick County].
    • Minnesota
      • Winona County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Oakridge [Winona County].
    • Mississippi
      • Lee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Oakridge [Lee County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Creek County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Oakridge [Creek County].
    • Ontario
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Oakridge.
    • Oregon
      • Lane County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Oakridge [Lane County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • York County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Oakridge [York County].
    • South Carolina
      • Lexington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Oakridge [Lexington County].
    • Tennessee
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Oakridge [Montgomery County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Kenosha County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Oakridge [Kenosha County].
      • Pierce County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Oakridge [Pierce County].

More Orphans in   ...

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 .

BeamondsJericho
Bennett's Creek 
BrinkleyLindale
BuckhornLittle Creek
  
Camps MillMagnolia Gardens
Cartwright's WharfMarford
College Park 
CrittendensPig Point
Cypress ChapelPineaire
 Purvis
Daileys Store 
DaughtryReids Ferry
Drummond 
DundalowSavage Crossing
 Ships Corner
ExitSorocco
 Stevers
Harrell Siding 
HilltopWagner's
Holiday PointWitch Duck Point
HollywoodWitch Duck
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>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 Oakridge 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.









 

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