Do you know of Saint Marys ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Saint Marys. 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 Saint Marys.
We found mention of Saint Marys as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
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 Saint Marys ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Saint Marys.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Saint Marys.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 24 are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Elk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint Marys [Elk County].
- Elk County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Saint Marys.
- Colorado
- Clear Creek County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Saint Marys [Clear Creek County].
- Huerfano 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 Colorado community of Saint Marys [Huerfano County].
- Florida
- Nassau 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 Florida community of Saint Marys [Nassau County].
- Georgia
- Camden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Saint Marys [Camden County].
- Illinois
- Effingham 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 Illinois community of Saint Marys [Effingham County].
- Iroquois 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 Illinois community of Saint Marys [Iroquois County].
- Indiana
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Saint Marys [Floyd County].
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Saint Marys [Franklin County].
- 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 Saint Marys [Vigo County].
- Iowa
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Saint Marys [Warren County].
- Kansas
- Pottawatomie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Saint Marys [Pottawatomie County].
- Sedgwick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Saint Marys [Sedgwick County].
- Kentucky
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Saint Marys [Lewis County].
- Michigan
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Saint Marys [Saint Clair County].
- Nevada
- Pershing County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Saint Marys [Pershing County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Saint Marys.
- 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 Saint Marys.
- Ohio
- Auglaize County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Saint Marys [Auglaize County].
- Ontario
- 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 Ontario community of Saint Marys.
- South Dakota
- Miner 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 South Dakota community of Saint Marys [Miner County].
- Tennessee
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Saint Marys [Franklin County].
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Saint Marys [Lawrence County].
- Texas
- Refugio County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Saint Marys [Refugio County].
- West Virginia
- Pleasants County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Saint Marys [Pleasants County].
- Wisconsin
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Saint Marys [Monroe County].
- Alaska
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Marys ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Saint Marys:
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
The FIPS database contains an entry for Saint Marys.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 42/67336 (Place Name: St. Marys)
County: Chester (FIPS State/County: 42/029)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Chester 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 Chester 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 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 Saint Marys 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. |