Do you know of Belfast ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Belfast. 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 Belfast.
We found mention of Belfast as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in somewhere in Maine.
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 1794.
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 Belfast ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Belfast.
There is one other community in Maine which is also named Belfast.
Beyond Maine, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 25 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Maine ...
- Waldo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Belfast [Waldo County].
- Waldo County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Belfast [Grant County].
- California
- Georgia
- Bryan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Belfast [Bryan County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Finney 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 Belfast [Finney County].
- Gray 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 Belfast [Gray County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Belfast [Baltimore County].
- Missouri
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Belfast [Newton County].
- Montana
- Garfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Belfast [Garfield County].
- Nebraska
- Greeley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Belfast [Greeley County].
- New York
- Allegany County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Belfast [Allegany County].
- North Carolina
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Belfast [Wayne County].
- Ohio
- Clermont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Belfast [Clermont County].
- Highland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Belfast [Highland County].
- Licking County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Belfast [Licking County].
- Preble County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Belfast [Preble County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Belfast.
- Pennsylvania
- Northampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Belfast [Northampton County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Belfast.
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Belfast [Marshall County].
- Virginia
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Belfast [Russell County].
- Washington
- Skagit County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Belfast [Skagit County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Belfast ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Belfast:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
U.S. Post Offices (1803)
Printed by order of the Post Master General
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 Belfast 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 . 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/ |