Do you know of Diana ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Diana. 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 Diana.
Our sources for Diana (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 Diana other than they indicate that Diana would be found somewhere in Lewis County, New York.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1846 and closed in 1906.
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 Diana ...
We found seven communities that share the name Diana.
Within New York, the name Diana is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Diana [Franklin County].
- Kansas
- Sedgwick County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Diana [Sedgwick County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Diana.
- Michigan
- Tennessee
- Giles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Diana [Giles County].
- Texas
- Upshur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Diana [Upshur County].
- West Virginia
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Diana [Webster County].
- Illinois
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Diana ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Diana:
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 Diana - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
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
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
New York Central Railroad Time Table (July 1902)
Published by New York Central Railroad
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Lewis 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 Lewis 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 Diana 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/ |