Do you know of Houseville ???

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

Our sources for Houseville (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 Houseville other than they indicate that Houseville would be found somewhere in Lewis County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1828 and closed in 1911.

Communities Also Named Houseville ...

We found one communities that share the name Houseville.

Within New York, the name Houseville is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Pennsylvania
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Houseville [Butler County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Houseville ...

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

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.

Found a mention of Houseville, but no details.

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

Greyhound Bus Time Table (November 1931)
Published by Greyhound Bus Lines

Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Houseville.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/35793 (Place Name: Houseville)

County: Lewis (FIPS State/County: 36/049)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Houseville) 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 Lewis 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 Lewis 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>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/