Do you know of McGrawville ???

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

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

Communities Also Named McGrawville ...

We found two communities that share the name McGrawville.

There is one other community in New York which is also named McGrawville.

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

Communities Located In New York ...
- Allegany County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of McGrawville [Allegany County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- South Dakota
  - Faulk County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of McGrawville [Faulk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for McGrawville ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for McGrawville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

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

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

More Orphans in Cortland 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 Cortland County.

Chicago
Cortland West	Lorings
Cosmos Heights
Creswell	McGrawsville
Cuyler Hill	Mills
	Mount Roderick
East Solon
	Polkville
Franks Corner
Freetown	South Cuyler

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 McGrawville 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.