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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blood's Depot. 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 Blood's Depot.<1>

Our sources for Blood's Depot (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 Blood's Depot other than they indicate that Blood's Depot would be found somewhere in Steuben County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1871 and closed  in 1892.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blood's Depot ...

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

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 Blood's Depot - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

More Orphans in  Steuben 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 Steuben County.

Addison Hill 
 Neil's Creek
Bennett's CreekNelson
Blood'sNorth Jasper
BrimmersvilleNorthside
  
CampbelltownPeltonville
CarsonPineville
Cold Spring MillsPond Settlement
Cold SpringPortway
CooksPurdy Creek
Cooper Plains 
CoopersQuackenbush Hill
Cossville 
CrosbyvilleRathboneville
 Renchan's Mills
East CanisteoRose
East Painted Post 
East TroupsburghShannon
ErwinSouth Hill
 South Howard
Goodhue LakeSouth Pultney
 Stove Pipe City
HighupSwale
Hornellsville 
 Taggart
JerseyTontine
JulianaTowelsville
  
KnoxvilleVan Fleet
  
LawrencevilleWayland Depot
LynnWayne Four Corners
Lyons HollowWest Addison
 West Jasper
MerchantvilleWest Rathbone
MossyglenWiley's Corners
Mud CreekWileysville
Mulhollon 

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

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