Do you know of Portersville ???

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

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

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 1828 and closed in 1851.

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 Portersville ...

We found six communities that share the name Portersville.

Within Connecticut, the name Portersville is unique.

Beyond Connecticut, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - DeKalb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Portersville [DeKalb County].
- Indiana
  - Dubois County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Portersville [Dubois County].
- North Carolina
  - Bladen 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 North Carolina community of Portersville [Bladen County].
- Ohio
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Portersville [Perry County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Portersville [Butler County].
- West Virginia
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Portersville [Lincoln County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Portersville ...

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in New London 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 New London County.

Aljen Heights	Lebanon Station
Allyns	Leonard Bridge
Ashwillet	Leonard's Bridge
Avery Hill	Lisbon
Avery's	Long Society
	Lyman Viaduct
Bill Hill
Borough	Montville station
Bozrah
Bozrahville	North Glenwood
Brighton Beach
Bundy Hill	Oswegatchie Hills
	Ox Hill
Campbell's Mills	Oxoboxo Lake
Centre Groton
Chestnut Hill	Pendleton Hill
Churchwood	Poquonock Switch
Comstock's Bridge	Prague
	Preston City
East Great Plain
East Lyme Station	Ridgewood Park
Ekonk Hill
Enders Island	Salem Four Corners
	South Glenwoods
Fairy Lake	Stonington Landing
Falls Switch	Summit
Ferry View Heights
Franklin Square	Tafts

Gardner's Lake	Uncasville - Oxoboxo Valley
Giants Neck Heights
Gibbs	Walnut Hill
Goshen Hills	Wamphassuc Point
Griswold	Washington Square
Groton Heights	Waterford Station
Groton Lake Shores	Wauwecus Hill
	West Side
Jericho Hill	Westchester Corner
Jordan Village	Westchester Station
	Westwood Park
Laurel Hill	Willow Point

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 Portersville 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/