Do you know of Rutland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rutland. 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 Rutland.
Our sources for Rutland (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 Rutland other than they indicate that Rutland would be found somewhere in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1828 and closed in 1957.
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 Rutland ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Rutland.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Rutland is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Rutland.
- Florida
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Rutland [Sumter County].
- Georgia
- Bibb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Rutland [Bibb County].
- Illinois
- La Salle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Rutland [La Salle County].
- Indiana
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Rutland [Marshall County].
- Iowa
- Humboldt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Rutland [Humboldt County].
- Kansas
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Rutland [Montgomery County].
- Kentucky
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rutland [Harrison County].
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Rutland [Anne Arundel County].
- Massachusetts
- Worcester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Rutland [Worcester County].
- Michigan
- Nebraska
- Dawes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Rutland [Dawes County].
- New York
- North Dakota
- Sargent County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Rutland [Sargent County].
- Ohio
- Meigs County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rutland [Meigs County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Rutland.
- South Dakota
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Rutland [Lake County].
- Texas
- Angelina County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rutland [Angelina County].
- Vermont
- Rutland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Rutland [Rutland County].
- Wisconsin
- Dane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Rutland [Dane County].
- British Columbia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rutland ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Rutland:
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 Rutland - 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
The FIPS database contains an entry for Rutland.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 42/66920 (Place Name: Rutland)
County: Tioga (FIPS State/County: 42/117)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Tioga 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 Tioga 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 Rutland 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/ |