Do you know of New Philadelphia ???

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

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

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 New Philadelphia ...

We found seven communities that share the name New Philadelphia.

Within Kansas, the name New Philadelphia is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - McDonough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of New Philadelphia [McDonough County].
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of New Philadelphia [Pike County].
- Indiana
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of New Philadelphia [Washington County].
- Iowa
  - New Philadelphia #
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of New Philadelphia.
- Ohio
  - Tuscarawas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Philadelphia [Tuscarawas County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Schuylkill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of New Philadelphia [Schuylkill County].
- Texas
  - Wharton 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 New Philadelphia [Wharton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Philadelphia ...

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

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in Wyandotte 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 Wyandotte County.

Footnotes ...

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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 New Philadelphia 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.