Do you know of Chews Landing ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Chews Landing. 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 Chews Landing.
Our sources for Chews Landing (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 Chews Landing other than they indicate that Chews Landing would be found somewhere in Camden 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.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Chews Landing ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Chews Landing:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Chews Landing - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
The FIPS database contains an entry for Chews Landing.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 34/12850 (Place Name: Chews Landing (Chews))
County: Camden (FIPS State/County: 34/007)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Chews Landing) 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).
More Orphans in Camden County ...
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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 Camden County.