Do you know of Saginaw ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Saginaw. 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 Saginaw.
Our sources for Saginaw (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 Saginaw other than they indicate that Saginaw would be found somewhere in Franklin County, New York.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1891.
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 Saginaw ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Saginaw.
Within New York, the name Saginaw is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Saginaw [Shelby County].
- Arizona
- Cochise County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Saginaw [Cochise County].
- Arkansas
- Hot Spring County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Saginaw [Hot Spring County].
- Georgia
- Coffee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Saginaw [Coffee County].
- Michigan
- Saginaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Saginaw [Saginaw County].
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Saginaw [Saint Louis County].
- Missouri
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Saginaw [Newton County].
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Lane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Saginaw [Lane County].
- Pennsylvania
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saginaw [York County].
- Texas
- Tarrant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Saginaw [Tarrant County].
- Washington
- Grays Harbor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Saginaw [Grays Harbor County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saginaw ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Saginaw:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Saginaw - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
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 ...
| <1> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Saginaw 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |