Do you know of New Springfield ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about New Springfield. 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 New Springfield.
Our sources for New Springfield (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 New Springfield other than they indicate that New Springfield would be found somewhere in Richmond 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 New Springfield ...
We found one communities that share the name New Springfield.
Within New York, the name New Springfield is unique.
Beyond New York, there is another community also named New Springfield in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Ohio
- Mahoning County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Springfield [Mahoning County].
- Ohio
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Springfield ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about New Springfield:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for New Springfield - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Richmond 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 Richmond County.