Do you know of Smiths Mills ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Smiths Mills. 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 Smiths Mills.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Smiths Mills, so we are uncertain whether Smiths Mills 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 Smiths Mills 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 Smiths Mills ...

We found eight communities that share the name Smiths Mills.

Within Maine, the name Smiths Mills is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
  - Henderson 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 Kentucky community of Smiths Mills [Henderson County].
- Mississippi
  - Carroll 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 Mississippi community of Smiths Mills [Carroll County].
- New Jersey
  - Passaic County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Smiths Mills [Passaic County].
- New York
  - Chautauqua 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 New York community of Smiths Mills [Chautauqua County].
- Ohio
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Smiths Mills [Marion County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Smiths Mills.
- Pennsylvania
  - Clearfield 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 Pennsylvania community of Smiths Mills [Clearfield County].
- South Carolina
  - Williamsburg 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 South Carolina community of Smiths Mills [Williamsburg 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 Diamond Island
Black Point	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	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

Higgins	Wardtown
Highland Lake Vista	Webb Mills
Hunnewell Hill	West Gloucester
	Westbrook Junction
Ingall's Hill	Wildwood Park
	Willard
Kings Grant
	Yarmouth Center
The Ledges	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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Smiths Mills 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.