Do you know of Saint Johns ???

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

Our sources for Saint Johns (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 Saint Johns other than they indicate that Saint Johns would be found somewhere in Rockland County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1883 and closed in 1915.

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 Saint Johns ...

We found 28 communities that share the name Saint Johns.

Within New York, the name Saint Johns is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 25 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Apache County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Saint Johns [Apache County].
- California
  - Tulare County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Saint Johns [Tulare County].
- Colorado
  - Summit County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Saint Johns [Summit County].
- Florida
  - Saint Johns County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Saint Johns [Saint Johns County].
- Idaho
  - Oneida County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Saint Johns [Oneida County].
- Illinois
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Saint Johns [Perry County].
- Indiana
  - DeKalb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Saint Johns [DeKalb County].
  - Shelby 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 Saint Johns [Shelby County].
- Kentucky
  - McCracken County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Saint Johns [McCracken County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Saint Johns.
- Michigan
  - Bay 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 Michigan community of Saint Johns [Bay County].
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Saint Johns [Clinton County].
- Minnesota
  - Kandiyohi 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 Minnesota community of Saint Johns [Kandiyohi County].
- Missouri
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Saint Johns [Franklin County].
  - Saint Louis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Saint Johns [Saint Louis County].
- Montana
  - Hill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Saint Johns [Hill County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Saint Johns.
- North Carolina
  - Chowan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Saint Johns [Chowan County].
  - Pitt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Saint Johns [Pitt County].
- Ohio
  - Auglaize County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Saint Johns [Auglaize County].
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Saint Johns [Mercer County].
  - Richland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Saint Johns [Richland County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Saint Johns.
- Oregon
  - Multnomah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Saint Johns [Multnomah County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Luzerne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint Johns [Luzerne County].
- South Carolina
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Saint Johns [Berkeley County].
- Tennessee
  - Lawrence 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 Saint Johns [Lawrence County].
  - Wilson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Saint Johns [Wilson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Johns ...

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

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

More Orphans in Rockland 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 Rockland 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 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 Saint Johns 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/