Do you know of Andover ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Andover. 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 Andover.
Our sources for Andover (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 Andover other than they indicate that Andover would be found somewhere in Sussex County, New Jersey.
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 Andover ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Andover.
Within New Jersey, the name Andover is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Placer County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Andover [Placer County].
- Connecticut
- Tolland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Andover [Tolland County].
- Florida
- Illinois
- Henry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Andover [Henry County].
- Iowa
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Andover [Clinton County].
- Kansas
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Andover [Butler County].
- Maine
- Oxford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Andover [Oxford County].
- Massachusetts
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Andover [Essex County].
- Minnesota
- Anoka County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Andover [Anoka County].
- Missouri
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Andover [Harrison County].
- New Hampshire
- Merrimack County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Andover [Merrimack County].
- New York
- Allegany County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Andover [Allegany County].
- Ohio
- Ashtabula County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Andover [Ashtabula County].
- Pennsylvania
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Andover [Fulton County].
- South Carolina
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Andover [Spartanburg County].
- South Dakota
- Day County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Andover [Day County].
- Vermont
- Windsor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Andover [Windsor County].
- Virginia
- Wise County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Andover [Wise County].
- Washington
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Andover ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Andover:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Andover - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
George#&160;F. Cram Map of New Jersey (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
Shell Oil Road Map for New Jersey (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company
More Orphans in Sussex 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 Sussex 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 Andover 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. |