Do you know of Homestead ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Homestead. 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 Homestead.
Our sources for Homestead (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 Homestead other than they indicate that Homestead would be found somewhere in Saint Lawrence County, New York.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1892 and closed in 1903.
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 Homestead ...
We found 39 communities that share the name Homestead.
Within New York, the name Homestead is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of another 39 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 39 communities, 39 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Homestead [Shelby County].
- Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Homestead [Maricopa County].
- California
- Kern County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Homestead [Kern County].
- Modoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Homestead [Modoc County].
- Riverside County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Homestead [Riverside County].
- Sacramento County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Homestead [Sacramento County].
- San Joaquin County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Homestead [San Joaquin County].
- Colorado
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Homestead [Jefferson County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Dearborn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Homestead [Dearborn County].
- Iowa
- Iowa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Homestead [Iowa County].
- Kansas
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Homestead.
- Maryland
- Baltimore City
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Homestead [Baltimore City].
- Michigan
- Benzie County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Homestead [Benzie County].
- Chippewa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Homestead [Chippewa County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Sheridan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Homestead [Sheridan County].
- Nebraska
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Homestead [Douglas County].
- Nevada
- Storey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Homestead [Storey County].
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Lucas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Homestead [Lucas County].
- Oklahoma
- Blaine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Homestead [Blaine County].
- Oregon
- Baker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Homestead [Baker County].
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Homestead [Allegheny County].
- Rhode Island
- Newport County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Homestead [Newport County].
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Virginia Beach City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Homestead [Virginia Beach City].
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Homestead ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Homestead:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Saint Lawrence 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 Saint Lawrence 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Homestead 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/ |