Do you know of Promised Land ???

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

Our sources for Promised Land (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 Promised Land other than they indicate that Promised Land would be found somewhere in Suffolk County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1879 and closed  in 1907.

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 Promised Land ...

We found nine communities that share the name Promised Land.

Within New York, the name Promised Land is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Ashley County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Promised Land [Ashley County].
    • Mississippi County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Promised Land [Mississippi County].
    • Poinsett County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Promised Land [Poinsett County].
  • Louisiana
    • Plaquemines Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Promised Land [Plaquemines Parish].
  • Maine
    • Androscoggin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Promised Land [Androscoggin County].
  • Mississippi
    • Sunflower County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Promised Land [Sunflower County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Pike County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Promised Land [Pike County].
  • South Carolina
    • Greenwood County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Promised Land [Greenwood County].
  • Tennessee
    • Jefferson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Promised Land [Jefferson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Promised Land ...

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

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

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

More Orphans in  Suffolk 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 Suffolk County.