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Do you know of North Sparta ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about North Sparta. 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 Sparta.

Our sources for North Sparta (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 North Sparta other than they indicate that North Sparta would be found somewhere in Livingston County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1832 and closed  in 1899.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North Sparta ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

More Orphans in  Livingston 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 Livingston County.

Conesus Center 
Consesu StationOld Orchard
Cuylerville StationOssian Center
  
Fisher'sPortage
Foster - Wheeler Junction 
 Retsof Junction
Geneseo StationRiver Junction
Gibsonville 
Groveland StationSpringwater Station
  
Hamilton'sTabor Corners
Hemlock Lake 
Hunt's StationWashington Hunt
 Webster Crossing
Livonia StationWebster
 West Conesus
McNairWest Nunda
McQueensWhite Bridge

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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