Do you know of Floral Park ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Floral Park. 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 Floral Park.
Our sources for Floral Park (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 Floral Park other than they indicate that Floral Park would be found somewhere in Queens 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 Floral Park ...
We found six communities that share the name Floral Park.
There is one other community in New York which is also named Floral Park.
Beyond New York, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, five are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In New York ...
- Nassau County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Floral Park [Nassau County].
- Nassau County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Floral Park [Middlesex County].
- Florida
- Palm Beach 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 Florida community of Floral Park [Palm Beach County].
- Montana
- Silver Bow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Floral Park [Silver Bow County].
- New Jersey
- Somerset 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 Jersey community of Floral Park [Somerset County].
- Ontario
- 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 Ontario community of Floral Park.
- Connecticut
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Floral Park ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Floral Park:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Floral Park - 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 Floral Park.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 36/26275 (Place Name: Floral Park)
County: Queens (FIPS State/County: 36/081)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Floral Park) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Queens 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 Queens County.
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Floral Park 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. |