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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Burnt Mills. 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 Burnt Mills.
Our sources for Burnt Mills (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Burnt Mills other than they indicate that Burnt Mills would be found somewhere in Jefferson County, New York.
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 Burnt Mills ...
We found five communities that share the name Burnt Mills.
Within New York, the name Burnt Mills is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Burnt Mills [Montgomery County].
- New Jersey
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Burnt Mills [Somerset County].
- North Carolina
- Camden County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Burnt Mills [Camden County].
- Pennsylvania
- Chester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Burnt Mills [Chester County].
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Burnt Mills [Lancaster County].
- Maryland
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Burnt Mills ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Burnt Mills:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Burnt Mills - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Jefferson 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 Jefferson County.