Do you know of The Corner ???

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

Our sources for The Corner (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 The Corner other than they indicate that The Corner would be found somewhere in Ulster 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 The Corner ...

We found six communities that share the name The Corner.

There is one other community in New York which is also named The Corner.

Beyond New York, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In New York ...
- Ulster 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 New York community of The Corner [Ulster County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of The Corner [Jefferson County].
- Indiana
  - Sullivan 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 Indiana community of The Corner [Sullivan County].
- Missouri
  - Mississippi 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 Missouri community of The Corner [Mississippi County].
- Ohio
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of The Corner [Washington County].
- Virginia
  - Russell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of The Corner [Russell County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for The Corner ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for The Corner - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for The Corner.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/73407 (Place Name: The Corner)

County: Ulster (FIPS State/County: 36/111)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Ulster 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 Ulster 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 The Corner 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.