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Do you know of Rockdale ???

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

Our sources for Rockdale (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Rockdale other than they indicate that Rockdale would be found somewhere in Lincoln County, Washington.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1896.

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 Rockdale ...

We found 36 communities that share the name Rockdale.

There is one other community in Washington which is also named Rockdale.

Beyond Washington, we know of another 35 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 35 communities, 34 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Washington ...
    • King County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Rockdale [King County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Rockdale [Jefferson County].
      • Randolph County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Rockdale [Randolph County].
    • Colorado
      • Chaffee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Rockdale [Chaffee County].
      • Fremont 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 Colorado community of Rockdale [Fremont County].
    • Florida
      • Miami-Dade County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Rockdale [Miami-Dade County].
    • Georgia
      • Fulton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rockdale [Fulton County].
    • Illinois
      • Will County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Rockdale [Will County].
    • Indiana
      • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Rockdale [Franklin County].
    • Iowa
      • Dubuque County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Rockdale [Dubuque County].
    • Kentucky
      • Boyd County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rockdale [Boyd County].
      • Owen County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rockdale [Owen County].
    • Maryland
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Rockdale [Washington County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Berkshire 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 Massachusetts community of Rockdale [Berkshire County].
      • Bristol County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Rockdale [Bristol County].
      • Norfolk 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 Massachusetts community of Rockdale [Norfolk County].
    • Missouri
      • Camden County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rockdale [Camden County].
    • New York
      • Chenango County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Rockdale [Chenango County].
    • North Carolina
      • Cleveland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Rockdale [Cleveland County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Rockdale.
    • Ohio
      • Butler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rockdale [Butler County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Rockdale.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bucks County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Bucks County].
      • Butler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Butler County].
      • Delaware County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Delaware County].
      • Franklin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Franklin County].
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Jefferson County].
      • Lackawanna County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Lackawanna County].
      • Lehigh County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rockdale [Lehigh County].
    • Tennessee
      • Maury County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rockdale [Maury County].
      • Rutherford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rockdale [Rutherford County].
    • Texas
      • Hopkins County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rockdale [Hopkins County].
      • Milam County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rockdale [Milam County].
    • West Virginia
      • Brooke County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Rockdale [Brooke County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Dane County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Rockdale [Dane County].
    • Wyoming
      • Carbon 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 Wyoming community of Rockdale [Carbon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rockdale ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rockdale - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Lincoln 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 Lincoln County.

Crab CreekKline
Crescent 
 Larene
Denny'sLayton
 Lemars
Egypt 
EleanorMinnie Falls
  
FairviewParrott
Fellows 
FrySassin
 Sedalia
Grand Coulee 
GravillesWells
 Wheatdale
Kelly 

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 Rockdale 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/









 

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