Do you know of Burrows ???

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

Our sources for Burrows (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 Burrows other than they indicate that Burrows would be found somewhere in McKean County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1882 and closed in 1919.

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 Burrows ...

We found eight communities that share the name Burrows.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Burrows.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, seven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Potter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Burrows [Potter County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Burrows [Madison County].
- Colorado
  - Park County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Burrows [Park County].
- Indiana
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Burrows [Carroll County].
- Missouri
  - Bates 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 Missouri community of Burrows [Bates County].
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Burrows [Mercer County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Burrows.
- Washington
  - Grays Harbor County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Burrows [Grays Harbor County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Burrows ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Burrows - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in McKean 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 McKean County.

Allegheny Bridge	Lants
Alton
	McAmbley
Babcock	McCalmont
Babcock's Mill	Melvin
Bellrun	Murray Hill
Bell's Run
Bolivar Run	Neilly's
Broder	Newerf
Bullis	Newtown
Burning Well	North Branch
Buttsville
	Olivedale
Camp Halsey	Ostrander
Carroll
Clermont Junction	Palmerville
Coffey Run	Phalin
Corryville	Pine Run
Crawford	Portage Creek
Cumming	Prentiss Vale

Davis	Quigley
Digel	Quinnwood
Dunkle	Quinton

East Bradford	Red Bridge
Eden	Riderville
Elmwood
Englers	Sargent
	Shaffer's Mill
Forest	Smithport
Fraley's	Smith's Run
	Song Bird
Gallagher	South Branch
Garner	Southard
Glenn	Spaulings
Goodell	State Line
Gridley's
	Tarport
Hamlin	Tome's
Hazelwood	Town Line
Hess Mill	Tuna Creek
Howard Junction	Turtle Point
Howard's Hill
	Watsonville
Indian Creek	Weaver's Mills
	Weedsport
Jo Jo Junction	West Kane
Joville	White Gravel
	Williams' Mills
Kendall Creek	Wilson
Kendall	Windfall
	Woodland
Lafferty	Woodvale

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 Burrows 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/