Do you know of Croton Landing ???

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

Our sources for Croton Landing (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 Croton Landing other than they indicate that Croton Landing would be found somewhere in Westchester County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1848 and closed  in 1891.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Croton Landing ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Croton Landing - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

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

New York Central Railroad Time Table (July 1902)
Published by New York Central Railroad

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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 Westchester County.