Do you know of Prescott ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Prescott. 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 Prescott.
Our sources for Prescott (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Prescott other than they indicate that Prescott would be found somewhere in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1822 and closed in 1924.
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 Prescott ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Prescott.
There is one other community in Massachusetts which is also named Prescott.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, 21 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Massachusetts ...
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Prescott [Franklin County].
- Franklin County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Prescott [Saint Clair County].
- Arizona
- Yavapai County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Prescott [Yavapai County].
- Arkansas
- Nevada County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Prescott [Nevada County].
- Georgia
- Charlton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Prescott [Charlton County].
- Echols 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 Georgia community of Prescott [Echols County].
- Lowndes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Prescott [Lowndes County].
- Indiana
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Prescott [Shelby County].
- Iowa
- Adams County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Prescott [Adams County].
- Kansas
- Linn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Prescott [Linn County].
- Osage 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 Kansas community of Prescott [Osage County].
- Pratt County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Prescott [Pratt County].
- Michigan
- Ogemaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Prescott [Ogemaw County].
- Missouri
- Texas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Prescott [Texas County].
- North Carolina
- Beaufort County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Prescott [Beaufort County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Prescott.
- Oregon
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Prescott [Columbia County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lebanon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Prescott [Lebanon County].
- South Carolina
- Washington
- Pierce 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 Washington community of Prescott [Pierce County].
- Walla Walla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Prescott [Walla Walla County].
- Wisconsin
- Pierce County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Prescott [Pierce County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Prescott ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Prescott:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Prescott - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
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
George#&160;F. Cram Map of Massachusetts (1901)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.
More Orphans in Hampshire 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 Hampshire County.
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 Prescott 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/ |