Do you know of Shirland ???

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

Our sources for Shirland (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 Shirland other than they indicate that Shirland would be found somewhere in Allegheny 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 Shirland ...

We found one communities that share the name Shirland.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Shirland is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named Shirland in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • Winnebago County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Shirland [Winnebago County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shirland ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Shirland - 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

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

More Orphans in  Allegheny County ...

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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 Allegheny County.