Do you know of New Harmony ???

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

We found mention of New Harmony as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Sangamon 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 1865 and closed  in 1875.

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 Harmony ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name New Harmony.

Within Illinois, the name New Harmony is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Chambers County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of New Harmony [Chambers County].
    • Cullman County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of New Harmony [Cullman County].
  • Florida
    • Walton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of New Harmony [Walton County].
  • Indiana
    • Posey County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of New Harmony [Posey County].
  • Mississippi
    • Union County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of New Harmony [Union County].
  • Missouri
    • Pike County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of New Harmony [Pike County].
  • Ohio
    • Brown County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of New Harmony [Brown County].
  • Prince Edward Island
    • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of New Harmony.
  • Tennessee
    • Bledsoe County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of New Harmony [Bledsoe County].
    • Hardin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of New Harmony [Hardin County].
    • Macon County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of New Harmony [Macon County].
  • Texas
    • Shelby County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of New Harmony [Shelby County].
    • Smith County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of New Harmony [Smith County].
  • Utah
    • Washington County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of New Harmony [Washington County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Harmony ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Sangamon 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 Sangamon County.