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Do you know of North Acton ???

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

We found mention of North Acton as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in York County, 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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1851 and closed  in 1873.

Communities Also Named North Acton ...

We found one communities that share the name North Acton.

Within Maine, the name North Acton is unique.

Beyond Maine, there is another community also named North Acton in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Massachusetts
      • Middlesex County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of North Acton [Middlesex County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North Acton ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  York 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 York County.

Acton CornerKennebunkport Center
 Kezar Falls
Balch PondKittery Center
Bald Head CliffKittery Depot
Bauneg BegKittery Junction
Beaver Dam 
Berwick BranchMaryland Ridge
Berwick CenterMousam Lake
Biddeford - Saco 
Brixham Upper CornersNorth Berwick Center
BrowningNubble
  
Centre WaterboroughOakland Farm
Conway JunctionOceanside
CornishvilleOld Orchard Beach Center
Crescent SurfOld Orchard
Crocketts Neck 
 Parsonfield
Day's SidingParsons
 Pine Park
East Elliott 
Elliot DepotSaco River
ElliottSaint Francis College
Emery's MillsSanford Center
 South Berwick Center
Fort HillSouth Berwick Junction
Fortune RockSouth Parsonfield
 South Waterboro
Grove Station 
 Webhannet
Haines MeadowWells Depot
HollandvilleWest Biddeford
 West Parsonfield
Kennebunk Center 
Kennebunk DepotYork Center
Kennebunk Lower Village 

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>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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