Do you know of Pine Knob ???

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

Our sources for Pine Knob (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 Pine Knob other than they indicate that Pine Knob would be found somewhere in Iowa County, Wisconsin.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1867 and closed  in 1902.

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 Pine Knob ...

We found three communities that share the name Pine Knob.

There is one other community in Wisconsin which is also named Pine Knob.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
  • Crawford County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Pine Knob [Crawford County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Grayson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pine Knob [Grayson County].
  • North Carolina
    • Orange County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Pine Knob [Orange County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pine Knob ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Pine Knob.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 55/62875   (Place Name: Pine Knob)

County: Iowa     (FIPS State/County: 55/049)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Pine Knob) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Iowa County ...

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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 Iowa County.