Do you know of Mineola ???

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

Our sources for Mineola (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 Mineola other than they indicate that Mineola 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 Mineola ...

We found ten communities that share the name Mineola.

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

Beyond New York, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In New York ...
- Nassau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Mineola [Nassau County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Mineola [Monroe County].
- Arkansas
  - Howard County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mineola [Howard County].
- Georgia
  - Lowndes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Mineola [Lowndes County].
- Iowa
  - Mills County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Mineola [Mills County].
- Missouri
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Mineola [Montgomery County].
- Nebraska
  - Holt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Mineola [Holt County].
- North Carolina
  - Beaufort 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 North Carolina community of Mineola [Beaufort County].
- Ohio
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mineola [Hamilton County].
- Texas
  - Wood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Mineola [Wood County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mineola ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Mineola - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

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

More Orphans in Queens County ...

Can you help?

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.

Albertson's	Laurel Hill
Aqueduct	Lawrence Station
Arverne-by-the-Sea	Lawrence
Atlantic Park	Locust Valley
Auburndale	Long Beach

Baldwin	Manhassett
Barnum's Island	Maple Grove
Bay Terrace	Massapequa
Bayville Station	Merrick
Bayville
Beach Channel	New Hyde Park
Bellmore	Newtown
Bethpage	Nichols Siding
Borough Hall
Broadway	Ocean Point
	Oceanus
Central Park	Old Westbury
Cold Spring	Oyster Bay
Corona - Elmhurst
Corona Park	Pearsall's
Creedmoor	Penny Bridge
	Plainview
Dunta	Plaza
	Point Lookout
East Norwich	Pomonok
East Rockaway	Port Washington
East Williston
Elmont	Queensbridge
Evergreen
	The Raunt
Farmingdale	Ravenswood
Floral Park	Ravenswood
Forest Park	Rockaway Beach
Fort Totten	Rockville Centre
Foster's Meadow	Roslyn
Freeport
Fremont	Sea Cliff Station
	Sea Cliff
Garden City	Seaford
Glen Cove	South Richmond Hill
Glen Head	Springfield
Glendale Junction	Syosset
Glendale Station
Goose Creek	Thomaston
	Trainsmeadow
Hall
Hempstead	Valley Stream
Hewlett's
Hicksville	Wantagh
Hollis Court	Westbury Station
Holliswood	Whitestone Landing
Horace Harding	Willetts Point
Hyde Park	Winfield
	Wood Haven
Inwood	Woodbury
	Woodhaven Junction
Jericho	Woodsburgh
	Woolsey

Footnotes ...

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Mineola 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.