Do you know of Graysville ???

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

We found mention of Graysville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Herkimer 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 1850 and closed in 1858.

Communities Also Named Graysville ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Graysville.

Within New York, the name Graysville is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Graysville [Jefferson County].
- Georgia
  - Catoosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Graysville [Catoosa County].
- Indiana
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Graysville [Clark County].
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Graysville [Sullivan County].
- Kentucky
  - Breckinridge County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Graysville [Breckinridge County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Graysville.
- Missouri
  - Putnam County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Graysville [Putnam County].
- Ohio
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Graysville [Monroe County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Graysville [Greene County].
  - Huntingdon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Graysville [Huntingdon County].
- Tennessee
  - Rhea County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Graysville [Rhea County].
- Virginia
  - Accomack County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Graysville [Accomack County].
  - Floyd County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Graysville [Floyd County].
- West Virginia
  - Marshall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Graysville [Marshall County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Graysville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in Herkimer 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 Herkimer County.

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>	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 Graysville 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.
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/