Do you know of Paradise ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Paradise. 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 Paradise.
We found mention of Paradise as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Rockingham County, Virginia.
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 1851 and closed in 1855.
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 Paradise ...
We found 39 communities that share the name Paradise.
Within Virginia, the name Paradise is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 37 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Paradise.
- Arizona
- Cochise County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Paradise [Cochise County].
- Arkansas
- California
- Butte County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Paradise [Butte County].
- Stanislaus 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 California community of Paradise [Stanislaus County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Paradise #
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Paradise.
- Illinois
- Coles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Paradise [Coles County].
- Indiana
- Warrick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Paradise [Warrick County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Paradise [Russell County].
- Kentucky
- Muhlenberg County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Paradise [Muhlenberg County].
- Louisiana
- Rapides Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Paradise [Rapides Parish].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Paradise [Baltimore County].
- Michigan
- Chippewa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Paradise [Chippewa County].
- Missouri
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Paradise [Clay County].
- Montana
- Sanders County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Paradise [Sanders County].
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Paradise [Clark County].
- New Jersey
- Gloucester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Paradise [Gloucester County].
- New York
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Paradise [Orange County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Paradise.
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Paradise.
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Wallowa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Paradise [Wallowa County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Paradise [Lancaster County].
- Monroe 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 Paradise [Monroe County].
- Schuylkill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Paradise [Schuylkill County].
- Texas
- Wise County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Paradise [Wise County].
- Utah
- Cache County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Paradise [Cache County].
- Washington
- Pierce County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Paradise [Pierce County].
- Spokane 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 Paradise [Spokane County].
- West Virginia
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Paradise [Putnam County].
- Wyoming
- Carbon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Paradise [Carbon County].
- Alaska
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Paradise ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Paradise:
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
More Orphans in Rockingham 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 Rockingham 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 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 Paradise 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/ |