Do you know of New Durham ???

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

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

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 1842 and closed  in 1868.

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 Durham ...

We found five communities that share the name New Durham.

There is one other community in Indiana which is also named New Durham.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, four are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Located In Indiana ...
  • Unknown
    • The profile page for New Durham #1 [County unknown]
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of New Durham.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New Hampshire
    • Strafford County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of New Durham [Strafford County].
  • New Jersey
    • Hudson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of New Durham [Hudson County].
    • Middlesex County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of New Durham [Middlesex County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of New Durham.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Durham ...

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

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

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  LaPorte 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 LaPorte County.