Do you know of Smith's Mills ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Smith's Mills. 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 Smith's Mills.<1>

Our sources for Smith's Mills (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 Smith's Mills other than they indicate that Smith's Mills would be found somewhere in Chautauqua County, New York.

Communities Also Named Smith's Mills ...

We found eight communities that share the name Smith's Mills.

Within New York, the name Smith's Mills is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, seven are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kentucky
  - Henderson County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Smith's Mills [Henderson County].
- Maine
  - Cumberland County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Smith's Mills [Cumberland County].
- Mississippi
  - Carroll County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Smith's Mills [Carroll County].
- New Jersey
  - Passaic County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Smith's Mills [Passaic County].
- Ohio
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Smith's Mills [Marion County].
- Ontario
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Smith's Mills.
- Pennsylvania
  - Clearfield County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Smith's Mills [Clearfield County].
- South Carolina
  - Williamsburg County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Smith's Mills [Williamsburg County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Smith's Mills ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Smith's Mills - 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.

More Orphans in Chautauqua 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 Chautauqua County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Smith's Mills 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.