Do you know of Salmon River ???

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

Our sources for Salmon River (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 Salmon River other than they indicate that Salmon River would be found somewhere in Oswego County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1839 and closed  in 1903.

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 Salmon River ...

We found three communities that share the name Salmon River.

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

Beyond New York, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other four communities are located in  Canada.

• Communities Located In New York ...
  • Clinton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Salmon River [Clinton County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New Brunswick
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Salmon River.
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Salmon River.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Salmon River ...

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

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 Salmon River - 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

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

More Orphans in  Oswego 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 Oswego County.