Do you know of New Castle ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about New Castle. 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 New Castle.
We found mention of New Castle as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Logan County, Illinois.
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 1847 and closed in 1853.
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 New Castle ...
We found twenty communities that share the name New Castle.
There are two communities within Illinois that are also named New Castle.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Saline 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 Illinois community of New Castle [Saline County].
- Tazewell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of New Castle [Tazewell County].
- Saline County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of New Castle [Jefferson County].
- Colorado
- Garfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of New Castle [Garfield County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of New Castle [New Castle County].
- Indiana
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of New Castle [Henry County].
- Kentucky
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of New Castle [Henry County].
- Missouri
- Gentry 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 Missouri community of New Castle [Gentry County].
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of New Castle [Johnson County].
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of New Castle [Rockingham County].
- New York
- Westchester 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 New York community of New Castle [Westchester County].
- North Carolina
- Wilkes County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of New Castle [Wilkes County].
- Ohio
- Belmont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Castle [Belmont County].
- Coshocton 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 Ohio community of New Castle [Coshocton County].
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Castle [Lawrence County].
- Pennsylvania
- Clearfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of New Castle [Clearfield County].
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of New Castle [Lawrence County].
- Schuylkill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of New Castle [Schuylkill County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of New Castle [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
- Craig County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of New Castle [Craig County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Castle ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about New Castle:
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
More Orphans in Logan 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 Logan County.
| Athol | Laenna |
| Burtonview | Milton Siding |
| Elk Hart City | Postville |
| Kruger | Utility Spur |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 New Castle 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |