Do you know of Millerton ???

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

We found mention of Millerton as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fresno County, California.

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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1853 and closed in 1874.

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 Millerton ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Millerton.

There are two communities within California that are also named Millerton.

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

Communities Located In California ...
- Madera County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Millerton [Madera County].
- Marin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Millerton [Marin County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Lake 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 Millerton [Lake County].
- Iowa
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Millerton [Wayne County].
- Kansas
  - Sumner County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Millerton [Sumner County].
- Louisiana
  - Claiborne Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Millerton [Claiborne Parish].
- Michigan
  - Mason County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Millerton [Mason County].
- Nebraska
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Millerton [Butler County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Millerton.
- New York
  - Dutchess County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Millerton [Dutchess County].
- North Carolina
  - Rowan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Millerton [Rowan County].
- Oklahoma
  - McCurtain County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Millerton [McCurtain County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Tioga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Millerton [Tioga County].
- Washington
  - Whatcom 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 Washington community of Millerton [Whatcom County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Millerton ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Millerton was listed as Millerton Courthouse.

More Orphans in Fresno 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 Fresno 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 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 Millerton 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/