Do you know of Waterville ???

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

Our sources for Waterville (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 Waterville other than they indicate that Waterville would be found somewhere in Grafton County, New Hampshire.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1889 and closed in 1922.

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 Waterville ...

We found 28 communities that share the name Waterville.

Within New Hampshire, the name Waterville is unique.

Beyond New Hampshire, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 24 are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Cochise County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Waterville [Cochise County].
- Connecticut
  - New Haven County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Waterville [New Haven County].
- Georgia
  - Walker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Waterville [Walker County].
- Iowa
  - Allamakee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Waterville [Allamakee County].
- Kansas
  - Marshall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Waterville [Marshall County].
  - Riley 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 Waterville [Riley County].
- Maine
  - Kennebec County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Waterville [Kennebec County].
- Massachusetts
  - Plymouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Waterville [Plymouth County].
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Waterville [Worcester County].
- Minnesota
  - Le Sueur County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Waterville [Le Sueur County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Waterville.
- New York
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Waterville [Jefferson County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Waterville [Montgomery County].
  - Oneida County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Waterville [Oneida County].
  - Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Waterville [Suffolk County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Waterville.
- North Carolina
  - Haywood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Waterville [Haywood County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Waterville.
- Ohio
  - Lucas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Waterville [Lucas County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Waterville [Columbia County].
  - Delaware County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Waterville [Delaware County].
  - Lycoming County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Waterville [Lycoming County].
- Quebec
  - 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 Quebec community of Waterville.
- Tennessee
  - Bradley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Waterville [Bradley County].
- Texas
  - Wharton 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 Texas community of Waterville [Wharton County].
- Vermont
  - Lamoille County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Waterville [Lamoille County].
- Washington
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Waterville [Douglas County].
- Wisconsin
  - Waukesha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Waterville [Waukesha County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Waterville ...

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

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 Waterville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of New Hampshire (1912)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Grafton 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 Grafton 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Waterville 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/