Do you know of Clearfield ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Clearfield was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Clearfield would be found somewhere in Erie 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 Clearfield ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Clearfield.

Within New York, the name Clearfield is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Clearfield [New Castle County].
- Iowa
  - Taylor County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Clearfield [Taylor County].
- Kansas
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Clearfield [Douglas County].
- Kentucky
  - Rowan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clearfield [Rowan County].
- Maryland
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Clearfield [Carroll County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Clearfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Clearfield [Clearfield County].
  - Northampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Clearfield [Northampton County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Clearfield.
- South Dakota
  - Tripp County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Clearfield [Tripp County].
- Utah
  - Davis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Clearfield [Davis County].
- Virginia
  - Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Clearfield [Fairfax County].
- West Virginia
  - Nicholas 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 West Virginia community of Clearfield [Nicholas County].

More Orphans in Erie 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 Erie County.

Abbott Road	Hertel
Amsdell Heights	Hiler
Angola Lake Shore	Homewood Park

Bethford	Idlewood
Bidwell	Inland
Big Tree Corners	International Junction
Black Rock
Boston Center	Jamison
Brighton Village
Buffalo Creek	Kellogg
Buffalo Junction	Kensington
Buffalo Lake
Burlington	Lawton Station
	Lincoln Park
Cass
Central Park	Main-Mill
Cheektowaga Northwest	Main Village
Cheektowaga Southwest	Market
Clarence Compact	Marquette
Coldbrook	Meadow Run

Delavan	New Falconwood
Delaware	Niagara Junction
Delray	Niagara Square
Deuels Corners	North Buffalo
	Northtown Plaza
East Buffalo	Northtown
East Hamburg
Ebenezer Junction	Orange Park
Eden Center
Elma Station	Riverside
Englewood
Evans	South Buffalo
	South Park
Falconwood	Steel City
Falkirk	Steelton
Ferry
	Terrace
Georgetown Square	Tonawanda Junction
Grand Island	Transitown
Grandview Bay
Green Acres	Van Del
Grimesville
Grover	Wales
Gunnville	Waterville Corners
	West Alden Station
Hamburg-on-the-Lake	West Concord
Hamburgh Station	Wilhelm
Harlem	William Station
Harriet	Willink
Helmuth	Woodlawn Beach

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 Clearfield 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.