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Do you know of Orrington ???

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

We found mention of Orrington as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Chautauqua 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 1824 and closed  in 1840.

Communities Also Named Orrington ...

We found one communities that share the name Orrington.

Within New York, the name Orrington is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maine
      • Penobscot County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Orrington [Penobscot County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Orrington ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Chautauqua 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 Chautauqua County.

AcastoMaple Bay
Arkwright SummitMarks
Ashville Bay 
 Norton's
Beachwood 
Broken StrawOpen Meadows
 Oregon
Cassadaga Station 
Cheneys PointPanama Station
Clarks CornersPoint Chautauqua
CliftonPomfret
Clymer StationProspect Station
 Prospect
East Sheridan 
ElleryRipley Center
  
Falconer JunctionSaint Clairsville
Fentonville StationSheridan Station
Fredonia StationSmith's Mills
  
Gillford'sTowerville Corners
Grant 
 Union Ellery
Hanover 
HarmonyVan Buren
Hawthorne ParkVermont
HoldenvilleVillanova
 Villenova
Ivesville 
 Washburn
Jamestown WestWest Ellicott
 Whitesides

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/