Do you know of Grassy Point ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Grassy Point. 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 Grassy Point.

Our sources for Grassy Point (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 Grassy Point other than they indicate that Grassy Point would be found somewhere in Rockland County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1834 and closed  in 1937.

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 Grassy Point ...

We found one communities that share the name Grassy Point.

Within New York, the name Grassy Point is unique.

Beyond New York, there is another community also named Grassy Point in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Ohio
    • Hardin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Grassy Point [Hardin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grassy Point ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Grassy Point.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/30081   (Place Name: Grassy Point)

County: Rockland     (FIPS State/County: 36/087)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Grassy Point) 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  Rockland 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 Rockland County.