Do you know of Fort Totten ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Totten. 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 Fort Totten.

We found mention of Fort Totten as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Queens 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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1902 and closed  in 1918.

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 Fort Totten ...

We found one communities that share the name Fort Totten.

Within New York, the name Fort Totten is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • North Dakota
    • Benson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Fort Totten [Benson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Totten ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Fort Totten.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/26990   (Place Name: Fort Totten (U.S. Army) (inactive))

County: Queens     (FIPS State/County: 36/081)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Fort Totten) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Queens 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 Queens County.