Do you know of Litchfield ???

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

Our sources for Litchfield (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 Litchfield other than they indicate that Litchfield would be found somewhere in Herkimer County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1810 and closed  in 1901.

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 Litchfield ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Litchfield.

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

Beyond New York, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Located In New York ...
  • Tioga County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Litchfield [Tioga County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arizona
    • Maricopa County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Litchfield [Maricopa County].
  • California
    • Lassen County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Litchfield [Lassen County].
  • Illinois
    • Kankakee County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Litchfield [Kankakee County].
    • Montgomery County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Litchfield [Montgomery County].
  • Kansas
    • Crawford County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Litchfield [Crawford County].
  • Maine
    • Kennebec County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Litchfield [Kennebec County].
  • Michigan
    • Hillsdale County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Litchfield [Hillsdale County].
  • Minnesota
    • Meeker County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Litchfield [Meeker County].
  • Nebraska
    • Sherman County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Litchfield [Sherman County].
  • New Hampshire
    • Hillsborough County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Litchfield [Hillsborough County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Litchfield.
  • Ohio
    • Medina County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Litchfield [Medina County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Bradford County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Litchfield [Bradford County].
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Litchfield.
  • Virginia
    • Fauquier County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Litchfield [Fauquier County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Litchfield ...

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

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 Litchfield - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

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

More Orphans in  Herkimer 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 Herkimer County.