Do you know of Cornfield Harbor ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cornfield Harbor. 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 Cornfield Harbor.

Our sources for Cornfield Harbor (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 Cornfield Harbor other than they indicate that Cornfield Harbor would be found somewhere in Saint Mary's County, Maryland.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1909 and closed  in 1932.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cornfield Harbor ...

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Maryland (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Cornfield Harbor.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 24/19950   (Place Name: Cornfield Harbor)

County: St. Mary's     (FIPS State/County: 24/037)

Class: U6

Identifies a populated place (ie- Cornfield Harbor) that is wholly or substantially located outside the boundaries of any incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) that has an authoritative common name recognized by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Saint Mary's 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 Saint Mary's County.