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Do you know of North China ???

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

We found mention of North China as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wyoming 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 1825 and closed  in 1832.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North China ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

More Orphans in  Wyoming 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 Wyoming County.

Arcade Junction 
 North Westfield
Bliss StationNorth Wethersfield
Bliss Summit 
 Orangeville Corners
Castile CenterOrangeville
China 
 Pearl Circle
Eagle CenterPerrys
Eagle VillagePike Five Corners
EarlsPortage
East China 
East GainesvilleRock Glen Station
East Java 
East OrangevilleSheldon Corners
East Pike 
 Vernal
Howard's Mill 
 Walker Grounds
Java LakeWalkers
JavaWethersfield
 Wyoming Station
Middlebury 

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>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/