Do you know of Five Mile River ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Five Mile River. 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 Five Mile River.

Our sources for Five Mile River (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 Five Mile River other than they indicate that Five Mile River would be found somewhere in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1868 and closed  in 1868.

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 Five Mile River ...

We found one communities that share the name Five Mile River.

Within Connecticut, the name Five Mile River is unique.

Beyond Connecticut, there is another community also named Five Mile River in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Five Mile River.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Five Mile River ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Five Mile River - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in  Fairfield 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 Fairfield County.