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Do you know of Burnham Junction ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Burnham Junction. 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 Burnham Junction.<1>

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Burnham Junction, so we are uncertain whether Burnham Junction is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Burnham Junction would be found somewhere in Waldo County, Maine.

Communities Also Named Burnham Junction ...

We found one communities that share the name Burnham Junction.

There is one other community in Maine which is also named Burnham Junction.

Beyond Maine.

  • Communities Located In Maine ...
    • Kennebec County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Burnham Junction [Kennebec County].

More Orphans in  Waldo 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 Waldo County.

BooksLincolnville Beach
Browns CornerLittlefields
Burnham Village 
 Moody Mountain
Cape JellisonMount Waldo
Cape Junction 
Center LincolnvilleNorth Belmont
Centre LincolnvilleNorth Frankfort
Coles CornerNorth Prospect
 North Troy
East Burnham 
East JacksonPalermo Center
East MontvillePalermo Centre
East SearsmontThe Pond
Ellingswood Corner 
 Rogers Corners
Fobes' 
ForbesSany Point
Frankfort MillsSouth Belmont
 South Brooks
GrangeSouth Freedom
 South Prospect
Hibberts GoreStockton
 Summers
Isleboro 
 Thorndike Center
Jackson Corners 
 Unity College
Kidders 
Knox StationWaldo Station
 West Freedom
Leonard's CrossingWest Troy
Libertyville 

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>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 Burnham Junction 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.









 

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