Do you know of The Rock ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about The 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 The Rock.
Our sources for The Rock (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of The Rock other than they indicate that The Rock would be found somewhere in Mercer County, West Virginia.
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 The Rock ...
We found 22 communities that share the name The Rock.
There is one other community in West Virginia which is also named The Rock.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In West Virginia ...
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of The Rock [Mercer County].
- Mercer County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of The Rock [Madison County].
- Florida
- Hernando 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 Florida community of The Rock [Hernando County].
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of The Rock [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Upson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of The Rock [Upson County].
- Illinois
- Pope County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of The Rock [Pope County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Cowley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of The Rock [Cowley County].
- Republic 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 Kansas community of The Rock [Republic County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Grant Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of The Rock [Grant Parish].
- Rapides Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of The Rock [Rapides Parish].
- Sabine Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of The Rock [Sabine Parish].
- Maryland
- Cecil County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of The Rock [Cecil County].
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of The Rock [Plymouth County].
- Michigan
- Delta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of The Rock [Delta County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Vernon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of The Rock [Vernon County].
- Ohio
- Tuscarawas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of The Rock [Tuscarawas County].
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for The Rock ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about The Rock:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for The Rock - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Mercer 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 Mercer 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 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 The 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. |