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Do you know of County Line ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1870 and closed  in 1915.

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 County Line ...

We found 26 communities that share the name County Line.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named County Line.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 24 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Bucks County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of County Line [Bucks County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Blount County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of County Line [Blount County].
      • Covington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of County Line [Covington County].
      • Cullman County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of County Line [Cullman County].
      • Pike 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 Alabama community of County Line [Pike County].
    • Arkansas
      • Fulton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of County Line [Fulton County].
    • Georgia
      • Barrow 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 Georgia community of County Line [Barrow County].
      • Carroll County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of County Line [Carroll County].
      • Meriwether County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of County Line [Meriwether County].
      • Stewart County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of County Line [Stewart County].
    • Indiana
      • Vigo 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 Indiana community of County Line [Vigo County].
    • Iowa
      • Jefferson 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 Iowa community of County Line [Jefferson County].
    • Michigan
      • Bay 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 Michigan community of County Line [Bay County].
      • Saginaw County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of County Line [Saginaw County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of County Line.
    • New York
      • Niagara County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of County Line [Niagara County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • 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 Nova Scotia community of County Line.
    • Ohio
      • Miami County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of County Line [Miami County].
      • Preble County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of County Line [Preble County].
    • Texas
      • Camp 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 Texas community of County Line [Camp County].
      • Hale County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of County Line [Hale County].
      • Nacogdoches County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of County Line [Nacogdoches County].
      • Rains County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of County Line [Rains County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Milwaukee 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 Wisconsin community of County Line [Milwaukee County].
      • Oconto County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of County Line [Oconto County].
      • Pierce County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of County Line [Pierce County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for County Line ...

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

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 County Line - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Northumberland 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 Northumberland County.

Arter'sKeiser
AugustaKline's Grove Station
  
BradyLocust Gap Junction
BrightLower Sagon
 Luke Fidler
Camp GroveLuke
Coal 
CrowlMahanoy
 Mahonoy
DeiblersMaysville
DougalMorris Ridge
Doutyville 
 Raker
East SunburyRoaring Creek
Enterprise 
 Sagon Junction
Fairview - FerndaleSedan
Fulton 
 Tharptown
GeorgetownTomson
Gottshalls 
Green RidgeUpper Sagon
  
HarpsVastine
Hickory Ridge 
 Wallace
Island ParkWater Station
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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 County Line 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.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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