Do you know of York ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about York. 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 York.
Our sources for York (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of York other than they indicate that York would be found somewhere in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1834 and closed in 1907.
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 York ...
We found 40 communities that share the name York.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named York.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 37 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Shiawassee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of York [Shiawassee County].
- Shiawassee County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of York [Sumter County].
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of York.
- Arizona
- Greenlee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of York [Greenlee County].
- California
- Florida
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of York [Marion County].
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Idaho County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of York [Idaho County].
- Illinois
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of York [Clark County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of York [Delaware County].
- Kansas
- Ottawa 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 Kansas community of York [Ottawa County].
- Sedgwick County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of York [Sedgwick County].
- Kentucky
- Greenup County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of York [Greenup County].
- Maine
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of York [York County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Atchison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of York [Atchison County].
- Montana
- Lewis and Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of York [Lewis and Clark County].
- Meagher 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 Montana community of York [Meagher County].
- Nebraska
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of York [York County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Benson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of York [Benson County].
- Ohio
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of York [Jefferson County].
- Sandusky County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of York [Sandusky County].
- Trumbull County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of York [Trumbull County].
- Union 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 Ohio community of York [Union County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of York.
- Pennsylvania
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of York [York County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of York.
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of York.
- South Carolina
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of York [York County].
- Utah
- Washington
- King County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of York [King County].
- West Virginia
- Mason County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of York [Mason County].
- Wisconsin
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of York [Jackson County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for York ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about York:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for York - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
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
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Washtenaw 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 Washtenaw County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 York 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |