Do you know of East Salem ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about East Salem. 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 East Salem.
Our sources for East Salem (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 East Salem other than they indicate that East Salem would be found somewhere in Washington County, New York.
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 East Salem ...
We found two communities that share the name East Salem.
Within New York, the name East Salem is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Pennsylvania
- Juniata County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of East Salem [Juniata County].
- West Virginia
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of East Salem [Harrison County].
- Pennsylvania
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Salem ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about East Salem:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for East Salem - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
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.
The FIPS database contains an entry for East Salem.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 36/22909 (Place Name: East Salem)
County: Washington (FIPS State/County: 36/115)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Washington 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 Washington County.