Do you know of Beaver Brook ???

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

Our sources for Beaver Brook (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 Beaver Brook other than they indicate that Beaver Brook would be found somewhere in Sullivan County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1839 and closed in 1917.

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 Beaver Brook ...

We found eight communities that share the name Beaver Brook.

Within New York, the name Beaver Brook is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, six are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
  - New Castle 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 Delaware community of Beaver Brook [New Castle County].
- Massachusetts
  - Essex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Beaver Brook [Essex County].
  - Middlesex 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 Massachusetts community of Beaver Brook [Middlesex County].
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Beaver Brook [Worcester County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Beaver Brook.
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Beaver Brook.
- Pennsylvania
  - Luzerne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Beaver Brook [Luzerne County].
- Wisconsin
  - Washburn County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Beaver Brook [Washburn County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Beaver Brook ...

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

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 Beaver Brook - 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 New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Beaver Brook.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/05166 (Place Name: Beaver Brook)

County: Sullivan (FIPS State/County: 36/105)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Beaver Brook) 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 Sullivan 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 Sullivan County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Beaver Brook 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/