Do you know of Long Island ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Long Island, so we are uncertain whether Long Island is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Long Island would be found somewhere in Hancock County, Maine.

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 Long Island ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Long Island.

There is one other community in Maine which is also named Long Island.

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

Communities Located In Maine ...
- Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Long Island [Cumberland County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Long Island [Jackson County].
- Alaska
  - 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 Alaska community of Long Island.
- Kansas
  - Phillips County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Long Island [Phillips County].
- Massachusetts
  - Suffolk 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 Long Island [Suffolk County].
- New Hampshire
  - Carroll 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 New Hampshire community of Long Island [Carroll County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Long Island.
- North Carolina
  - Catawba County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Long Island [Catawba County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Long Island.
- Tennessee
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Long Island [Sullivan County].
- Virginia
  - Campbell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Long Island [Campbell County].

More Orphans in Hancock 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 Hancock 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 Long Island 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.