Do you know of South Side ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of South Side, so we are uncertain whether South Side is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that South Side would be found somewhere in Lackawanna 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 South Side ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name South Side.

There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named South Side.

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

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Allegheny 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 Pennsylvania community of South Side [Allegheny County].
- York 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 Pennsylvania community of South Side [York County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Pulaski 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 Arkansas community of South Side [Pulaski County].
- Florida
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of South Side [Marion County].
- Kansas
  - Osborne 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 Kansas community of South Side [Osborne County].
- Maine
  - York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of South Side [York County].
- Missouri
  - Greene 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 Missouri community of South Side [Greene County].
  - Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of South Side [Saint Louis County].
- New York
  - Chemung 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 New York community of South Side [Chemung County].
- North Carolina
  - Forsyth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of South Side [Forsyth County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of South Side.
- Ohio
  - Hamilton 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 South Side [Hamilton County].
  - Mahoning County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of South Side [Mahoning County].
  - Tuscarawas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of South Side [Tuscarawas County].
- South Carolina
  - Florence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of South Side [Florence County].
- Wisconsin
  - Dane 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 Wisconsin community of South Side [Dane County].

More Orphans in Lackawanna 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 Lackawanna 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 South Side 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.