Do you know of Bedford Station ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bedford Station. 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 Bedford Station.

Our sources for Bedford Station (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 Bedford Station other than they indicate that Bedford Station would be found somewhere in Westchester County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1848 and closed in 1910.

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 Bedford Station ...

We found four communities that share the name Bedford Station.

There is one other community in New York which is also named Bedford Station.

Beyond New York, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In New York ...
- Kings 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 York community of Bedford Station [Kings County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Missouri
  - Livingston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bedford Station [Livingston County].
- New Hampshire
  - Hillsborough 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 Bedford Station [Hillsborough County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Bedford Station.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bedford Station ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Bedford Station - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Westchester 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 Westchester County.

Bartow-on-the-Sound	Mount Saint Vincent
Bartow	Mount Upton
Bay Chester	Mount Vernon West
Bedford Park
Bleach	Neperan
Boscobel	New Castle
Bronx	North Castle
	North Larchmont
Casanova	North
Castle	North Yonkers
Catamount
Central White Plains	Pelhamville
Centuck	Pleasantville Station
City Island	Primrose
Cornell	Purdy Station
Croton - Harmon
Croton Lake	Sing Sing
Croton Landing	Sky Meadow Farms
Croton North	Somers Center
Croton	Somers Town
	South
David's Island	Sparkle Lake
	Spring Park
East	Stillwater Hill
Edgemont
Elsmere	Tarrytown Heights
	Tarrytown Station
Gedney	Timpson's
Gray Oaks
	Unionville
Hammond
Harmon-on-Hudson	Van Cortland
Hastings	Van Nest
Hudson Terrace
	Wakefield
Kisco Park	Washingtonville
	West Farms
Lake Kitchawan	West Harrison
Lake Osceola	West New Rochelle
Lake Shenorock	West Somers
Lake Waccabuc	West Chester
Lakehurst	Whippoorwill
Larchmont Gardens	Whitlocksville
Larchmont North	Whitson
Lawrence Farms	Williams Bridge
	Wilson Park
Maryknoll	Woodlawn
McLean Heights
Merritt's Corners	Yorktown Station
Mohegan

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Bedford Station 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.

<2>

A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/