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Do you know of Sand Rock ???

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

We found mention of Sand Rock as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Ashland County, Wisconsin.

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.

Communities Also Named Sand Rock ...

We found three communities that share the name Sand Rock.

Within Wisconsin, the name Sand Rock is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Cherokee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sand Rock [Cherokee County].
    • Montana
      • Fergus County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Sand Rock [Fergus County].
    • Texas
      • Foard 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 Texas community of Sand Rock [Foard County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sand Rock ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Ashland 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 Ashland County.

Agnew 
AlderKimball's
  
BarrowMarengo Junction
Bear TrapMineral Lake
  
CarsonPence
CedarPenokee
CurryPlummer
  
FentonRouse
 Rufus
Gile 
GillettSaxon
  
HoytUpson
  
Iron BeltVan Buskirk

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 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 Sand Rock 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.









 

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