Do you know of Grand Island ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Grand Island. 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 Grand Island.

Our sources for Grand Island (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 Grand Island other than they indicate that Grand Island would be found somewhere in Erie County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1851.

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 Grand Island ...

We found four communities that share the name Grand Island.

Within New York, the name Grand Island is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Colusa County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Grand Island [Colusa County].
  • Colorado
    • Boulder County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Grand Island [Boulder County].
  • Florida
    • Lake County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Grand Island [Lake County].
  • Nebraska
    • Hall County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Grand Island [Hall County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grand Island ...

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

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 Grand Island - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Grand Island.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/29817   (Place Name: Grand Island)

County: Erie     (FIPS State/County: 36/029)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Grand Island) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Erie 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 Erie County.