Do you know of Thompsons Point ???

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

We found mention of Thompsons Point as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Cumberland County, Maine.

Communities Also Named Thompsons Point ...

We found one communities that share the name Thompsons Point.

Within Maine, the name Thompsons Point is unique.

Beyond Maine, there is another community also named Thompsons Point in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Vermont
  - Chittenden County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Thompsons Point [Chittenden County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Thompsons Point ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Thompsons Point - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Thompsons Point.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 23/76505 (Place Name: Thompson's Point)

County: Cumberland (FIPS State/County: 23/005)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Thompsons Point) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

FIPS Code: 23/76540 (Place Name: Thompsons Point)

County: Cumberland (FIPS State/County: 23/005)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Thompsons Point) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

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 Falls - South Windham
Black Point	Lygonia
Blakes
Bowery Beach	Mackworth Point
Bridgton Compact	Mallison Falls
Broad Cove	Mattocks
Brunswick Center	Mayberry Hill
Brunswick Station
Buggy Meetinghouse	Oceanview Harbor
	Olde Mill Brook
Cape Cottage Woods
Chadbourne's	Peabbles Cove
Chase's	Pejepscot
Clapboard Island	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	Town Farm Hill
Freeport Center	Two Lights

Gorham Center	Union Station
Great Diamond Island	Upper Yarmouth

Higgins	Wardtown
Highland Lake Vista	Webb Mills
Hunnewell Hill	West Brunswick
	West Gloucester
Ingall's Hill	Westbrook Junction
	Wildwood Park
Kings Grant	Willard

The Ledges	Yarmouth Center
Little Diamond Island	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>

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 Thompsons Point 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.