Do you know of Smiths Basin ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Smiths Basin. 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 Smiths Basin.<1>

Our sources for Smiths Basin (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 Smiths Basin other than they indicate that Smiths Basin would be found somewhere in Washington County, New York.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Smiths Basin ...

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

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

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Smiths Basin.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/67807 (Place Name: Smiths Basin)

County: Washington (FIPS State/County: 36/115)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Smiths Basin) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Washington 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 Washington County.

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.