Do you know of Rainbow ???

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

Our sources for Rainbow (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Rainbow other than they indicate that Rainbow would be found somewhere in Franklin County, New York.

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 Rainbow ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Rainbow.

Within New York, the name Rainbow is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Rainbow [Madison County].
- Alaska
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Rainbow.
- California
  - Placer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rainbow [Placer County].
  - San Diego County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rainbow [San Diego County].
- Connecticut
  - Hartford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Rainbow [Hartford County].
- Indiana
  - Marion County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Rainbow [Marion County].
- Montana
  - Cascade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Rainbow [Cascade County].
- Ohio
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Rainbow [Washington County].
- Oregon
  - Lane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Rainbow [Lane County].
- Tennessee
  - Sevier County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Rainbow [Sevier County].
- Texas
  - Somervell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Rainbow [Somervell County].
- Utah
  - Uintah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Rainbow [Uintah County].
- Wisconsin
  - Oneida County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Rainbow [Oneida County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rainbow ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Rainbow - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

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 Franklin 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 Franklin County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rainbow 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.