Do you know of College Point ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about College Point. 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 College Point.<1>
We found mention of College Point as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Bay County, Florida.
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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1930 and closed in 1934.
Communities Also Named College Point ...
We found one communities that share the name College Point.
Within Florida, the name College Point is unique.
Beyond Florida, there is another community also named College Point in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New York
- Queens County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of College Point [Queens County].
- New York
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for College Point ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about College Point:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
The FIPS database contains an entry for College Point.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 12/13525 (Place Name: College Point)
County: Bay (FIPS State/County: 12/005)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, College Point) 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 Bay 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 Bay County.
| Bear Creek | |
| Betty Lou Beach | Saint Andrews |
| Santa Monica | |
| Green Hills | Silver Sands |
| Sunnyside Beach | |
| Holiday Plaza | |
| Tompkins | |
| Lullwater Beach | Tyndall Air Force Base |
| Mill Bayou | Woodlawn |
| Woodville | |
| North Side |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |