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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Port Reading Junction. 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 Port Reading Junction.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Port Reading Junction was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Port Reading Junction would be found somewhere in Somerset County, New Jersey.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Port Reading Junction ...

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

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Port Reading Junction.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 34/60570   (Place Name: Port Reading Junction)

County: Somerset     (FIPS State/County: 34/035)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Port Reading Junction) 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  Somerset 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 Somerset County.

AdamsvilleNorthBranch Depot
Avena 
 Raritan
BaskenridgeRead Valley
BernardsvilleRebel Hill
Bound BrookRicefield
BridgewaterRocky Hill
 Roycefield
Far HillsRoysfield
Fieldstone 
Floral ParkSloping Hills
 South Bound Brook
GalliaStoutsburgh
Galloping HillSunset Hill
Green Brook 
 Tewsbury
Homestead Village 
 Warren
Manville - FinderneWest Brunswick
ManvilleWest Neshanic
MillstoneWeston - Manville
 Woodville
North Plainfield 

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>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.