Do you know of Pratt ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Pratt, so we are uncertain whether Pratt is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Pratt would be found somewhere in Kings 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 Pratt ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Pratt.

Within New York, the name Pratt is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Maricopa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Pratt [Maricopa County].
- Arkansas
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Pratt [Clay County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Pratt.
- Illinois
  - Whiteside County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Pratt [Whiteside County].
- Kansas
  - Pratt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Pratt [Pratt County].
- Kentucky
  - Webster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pratt [Webster County].
- Louisiana
  - Bienville Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Pratt [Bienville Parish].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Pratt.
- Maryland
  - Allegany County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Pratt [Allegany County].
- Minnesota
  - Steele County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Pratt [Steele County].
- Missouri
  - Ripley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pratt [Ripley County].
- New Hampshire
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Pratt [Hillsborough County].
- New Mexico
  - Hidalgo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Pratt [Hidalgo County].
- Washington
  - Spokane 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 Washington community of Pratt [Spokane County].
- West Virginia
  - Kanawha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Pratt [Kanawha County].
  - Roane 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 West Virginia community of Pratt [Roane County].

More Orphans in Kings 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 Kings County.

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Pratt 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.