Do you know of Fergusons Corners ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fergusons Corners. 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 Fergusons Corners.

Our sources for Fergusons Corners (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 Fergusons Corners other than they indicate that Fergusons Corners would be found somewhere in Yates 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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fergusons Corners ...

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

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

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Fergusons Corners.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/25637   (Place Name: Fergusons Corners)

County: Yates     (FIPS State/County: 36/123)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Fergusons Corners) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Yates 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 Yates County.