Do you know of Black Point ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Black Point. 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 Black Point.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Black Point, so we are uncertain whether Black Point is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Black Point would be found somewhere in Cumberland County, Maine.

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 Black Point ...

We found ten communities that share the name Black Point.

Within Maine, the name Black Point is unique.

Beyond Maine, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, six are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Black Point.
- California
  - Marin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Black Point [Marin County].
- Connecticut
  - New London County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Black Point [New London County].
- Florida
  - Duval 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 Florida community of Black Point [Duval County].
  - Flagler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Black Point [Flagler County].
- Indiana
  - Kosciusko County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Black Point [Kosciusko County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Black Point.
- Nova Scotia
  - 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 Nova Scotia community of Black Point.
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Black Point.
- Texas
  - Refugio County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Black Point [Refugio County].

More Orphans in Cumberland 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 Cumberland County.

Birch Island	Little Falls - South Windham
Blakes	Lygonia
Bowery Beach
Bridgton Compact	Mackworth Point
Broad Cove	Mallison Falls
Brunswick Center	Mattocks
Brunswick Station	Mayberry Hill
Buggy Meetinghouse
	Oceanview Harbor
Cape Cottage Woods	Olde Mill Brook
Chadbourne's
Chase's	Peabbles Cove
Clapboard Island	Pejepscot
Cooks Mills	Penny's
Cornish	Plummer Island
Crescent Beach	Pumpkin Valley
Cumberland Junction
	Redbank Village
Deering Centre	The Ridge
Duck Pond Corner
Duck Pond	Sabbathday Lake
Dunstan	Saccarappa
	Scarborough Beach
East Baldwin	Scarborough Crossing
East North Yarmouth	Sligo
East Windham	Smiths Mills
Evergreen	South Portland Heights
	South Standish
Forest City Landing	Stickey River
Fort Williams
Freeport Center	Thompsons Point
	Town Farm Hill
Gorham Center	Two Lights
Great Diamond Island
	Union Station
Higgins
Highland Lake Vista	Wardtown
Hunnewell Hill	Webb Mills
	West Gloucester
Ingall's Hill	Westbrook Junction
	Wildwood Park
Kings Grant	Willard

The Ledges	Yarmouth Center
Little Diamond Island	Yarmouthville

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Black Point 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.