Do you know of Cornwall ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cornwall. 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 Cornwall.
Our sources for Cornwall (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 Cornwall other than they indicate that Cornwall would be found somewhere in Orange County, New York.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849.
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 Cornwall ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Cornwall.
Within New York, the name Cornwall is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cornwall [Cherokee County].
- California
- Contra Costa County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Cornwall [Contra Costa County].
- Connecticut
- Litchfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Cornwall [Litchfield County].
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Missouri
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cornwall [Madison County].
- North Carolina
- Granville County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Cornwall [Granville County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Cornwall.
- Pennsylvania
- Lebanon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cornwall [Lebanon County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Cornwall.
- Vermont
- Addison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Cornwall [Addison County].
- Virginia
- Rockbridge County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Cornwall [Rockbridge County].
- Washington
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cornwall ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cornwall:
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 Cornwall - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
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
Michigan Central Railroad Time Tables (July 1912)
Published by Michigan Central Railroad
New York Central Railroad Time Table (April 1950)
Published by New York Central Railroad
New York Central Railroad Time Table (June 1941)
Published by New York Central Railroad
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
Shell Oil Road Map for New York (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company
The FIPS database contains an entry for Cornwall.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 36/18289 (Place Name: Cornwall)
County: Orange (FIPS State/County: 36/071)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Orange 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 Orange County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Cornwall 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |