Do you know of Sandy Beach ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sandy Beach. 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 Sandy Beach.<1>
We found mention of Sandy Beach as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Cumberland 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 1855 and closed in 1871.
Communities Also Named Sandy Beach ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Sandy Beach.
There is one other community in Maine which is also named Sandy Beach.
Beyond Maine, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, ten are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Maine ...
- Penobscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Sandy Beach [Penobscot County].
- Penobscot County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Sandy Beach.
- Connecticut
- Litchfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Sandy Beach [Litchfield County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Sandy Beach [Sussex County].
- Indiana
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Sandy Beach [Carroll County].
- Massachusetts
- Norfolk 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 Massachusetts community of Sandy Beach [Norfolk County].
- Worcester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Sandy Beach [Worcester County].
- Michigan
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sandy Beach [Cass County].
- Saint Joseph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sandy Beach [Saint Joseph County].
- New York
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sandy Beach [Erie County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Sandy Beach.
- Ohio
- Auglaize County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sandy Beach [Auglaize County].
- Ontario
- 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 Ontario community of Sandy Beach.
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Sandy Beach.
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Sandy Beach.
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sandy Beach ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sandy Beach:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
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.
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 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 Sandy Beach 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |