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Do you know of Cossville ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cossville. 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 Cossville.<1>

We found mention of Cossville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Steuben County, New York.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1845 and closed  in 1847.

Communities Also Named Cossville ...

We found one communities that share the name Cossville.

Within New York, the name Cossville is unique.

Beyond New York, there is another community also named Cossville in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Missouri
      • Jasper County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cossville [Jasper County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cossville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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 HillNelson
 North Jasper
Bennett's CreekNorthside
Blood's Depot 
Blood'sOak Grove
Brimmersville 
 Peltonville
CampbelltownPineville
CarsonPond Settlement
Cold Spring MillsPortway
Cold SpringPurdy Creek
Cooks 
Cooper PlainsQuackenbush Hill
Coopers 
CrosbyvilleRathboneville
 Renchan's Mills
East CanisteoRoscommon
East Painted PostRose
East Troupsburgh 
ErwinShannon
 South Hill
Goodhue LakeSouth Howard
 South Pultney
HighupStove Pipe City
HornellsvilleSwale
  
JerseyTaggart
JulianaTontine
 Towelsville
Knoxville 
 Van Fleet
Lawrenceville 
LynnWayland Depot
Lyons HollowWayne Four Corners
 West Addison
MerchantvilleWest Jasper
MossyglenWest Rathbone
Mud CreekWest Urbana
MulhollonWest Wheeler
 Wiley's Corners
Neil's CreekWileysville

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>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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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