Do you know of North Sterling ???

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

Our sources for North Sterling (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 North Sterling other than they indicate that North Sterling would be found somewhere in Windham County, Connecticut.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1912.

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 North Sterling ...

We found one communities that share the name North Sterling.

Within Connecticut, the name North Sterling is unique.

Beyond Connecticut, there is another community also named North Sterling in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New York
    • Cayuga County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of North Sterling [Cayuga County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North Sterling ...

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

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 North Sterling - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for North Sterling.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 09/55360   (Place Name: North Sterling)

County: Windham     (FIPS State/County: 09/015)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, North Sterling) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Windham 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 Windham County.