Do you know of Prentiss ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1903.

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.

Communities Also Named Prentiss ...

We found nine communities that share the name Prentiss.

Within New York, the name Prentiss is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Georgia
    • Appling County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Prentiss [Appling County].
  • Kentucky
    • Ohio County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Prentiss [Ohio County].
  • Maine
    • Penobscot County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Prentiss [Penobscot County].
  • Mississippi
    • Bolivar County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Prentiss [Bolivar County].
    • Jefferson Davis County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Prentiss [Jefferson Davis County].
  • North Carolina
    • Macon County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Prentiss [Macon County].
  • Ohio
    • Franklin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Prentiss [Franklin County].
    • Putnam County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Prentiss [Putnam County].
  • Oklahoma
    • Beckham County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Prentiss [Beckham County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Prentiss ...

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

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 Prentiss - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Greene 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 Greene County.