Do you know of Greene ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Greene. 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 Greene.
Our sources for Greene (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 Greene other than they indicate that Greene would be found somewhere in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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 Greene ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Greene.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Greene is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Oconee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Greene [Oconee County].
- Indiana
- Jay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Greene [Jay County].
- Iowa
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Greene [Butler County].
- Maine
- Androscoggin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Greene [Androscoggin County].
- Michigan
- Mackinac 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 Greene [Mackinac 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 Greene [Saginaw County].
- Missouri
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Greene [Lewis County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- Chenango County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Greene [Chenango County].
- North Dakota
- Cass 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 North Dakota community of Greene [Cass County].
- Renville County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Greene [Renville County].
- Ohio
- Trumbull County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Greene [Trumbull County].
- Rhode Island
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Greene [Kent County].
- West Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Greene ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Greene:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Greene - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Greene.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 42/30960 (Place Name: Greene (Fairfield))
County: Lancaster (FIPS State/County: 42/071)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Greene) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Lancaster 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 Lancaster County.
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 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 Greene 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. |