Do you know of Clapboard Island ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Clapboard Island, so we are uncertain whether Clapboard Island 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 Clapboard Island would be found somewhere in Cumberland County, Maine.

More Orphans in Cumberland 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 Cumberland County.

Birch Island	Lygonia
Black Point
Blakes	Mackworth Point
Bowery Beach	Mallison Falls
Bridgton Compact	Mattocks
Broad Cove	Mayberry Hill
Brunswick Center
Brunswick Station	Oceanview Harbor
Buggy Meetinghouse	Olde Mill Brook

Cape Cottage Woods	Peabbles Cove
Chadbourne's	Pejepscot
Chase's	Penny's
Cooks Mills	Plummer Island
Cornish	Pumpkin Valley
Crescent Beach
Cumberland Junction	Raymondtown
	Redbank Village
Deering Centre	The Ridge
Duck Pond Corner
Duck Pond	Sabbathday Lake
Dunstan	Saccarappa
Durham	Sandy Beach
	Scarborough Beach
East Baldwin	Scarborough Crossing
East North Yarmouth	Sligo
East Standish	Smiths Mills
East Windham	South Portland Heights
Evergreen	South Standish
	Stickey River
Forest City Landing
Fort Williams	Thompsons Point
Freeport Center	Town Farm Hill
	Two Lights
Gorham Center
Great Diamond Island	Union Station
	Upper Yarmouth
Higgins
Highland Lake Vista	Wardtown
Hunnewell Hill	Webb Mills
	West Brunswick
Ingall's Hill	West Gloucester
	Westbrook Junction
Kings Grant	Wildwood Park
	Willard
The Ledges
Little Diamond Island	Yarmouth Center
Little Falls - South Windham	Yarmouthville

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.