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Do you know of Penville ???

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

We found mention of Penville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Cattaraugus 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 1890 and closed  in 1891.

Communities Also Named Penville ...

We found one communities that share the name Penville.

Within New York, the name Penville is unique.

Beyond New York, there is another community also named Penville in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Ontario
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Penville.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Penville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

More Orphans in  Cattaraugus 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 Cattaraugus County.

Anybody'sLake
Ashford StationLeek
AustinLime Lake - Machias
  
BanksMaine
Bay StateMaltbie Heights
BucktoothMansfield
Burton 
 Onoville Station
Conewango Station 
Crystal LakePine Valley
  
Deer LickRawson
DelavanRemington
Devereux StationRice
 Riverside Park
East AshfordRussells
East Salamanca 
ElkSchoonmaker
English BrookSillimans Corners
 Sociality
Farmersville CenterSteam Valley
Fish LakeStevens
The ForksSummit
  
Gordon'sTen Mile Spring
Great Valley CentreTunungwant Mills
  
HideckerWest Hinsdale
Howlett'sWest Salamanca
HoytsWest
 West Yorkshire
JohnsonsWeston's
  
Knapp's CreekYorkshire Center
  

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>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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Penville 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.
<4>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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