Do you know of Phillipsburg ???

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

Our sources for Phillipsburg (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Phillipsburg other than they indicate that Phillipsburg would be found somewhere in Centre 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 Phillipsburg ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Phillipsburg.

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

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

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Phillipsburg [Jefferson County].
- Georgia
  - Tift County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Phillipsburg [Tift County].
- Kansas
  - Phillips County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Phillipsburg [Phillips County].
- Kentucky
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Phillipsburg [Marion County].
- Missouri
  - Laclede County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Phillipsburg [Laclede County].
- Nebraska
  - Custer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Phillipsburg [Custer County].
- New Jersey
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Phillipsburg [Warren County].
- New Mexico
  - Sierra County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Phillipsburg [Sierra County].
- New York
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Phillipsburg [Orange County].
- Ohio
  - Athens 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 Ohio community of Phillipsburg [Athens County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Phillipsburg [Montgomery County].
  - Tuscarawas 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 Ohio community of Phillipsburg [Tuscarawas County].
- Oklahoma
  - Creek County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Phillipsburg [Creek County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Phillipsburg.
- Texas
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Phillipsburg [Washington County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Phillipsburg ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Phillipsburg - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

More Orphans in Centre 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 Centre 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Phillipsburg 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.