Do you know of The Springs ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of The Springs, so we are uncertain whether The Springs is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that The Springs would be found somewhere in Suffolk 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 The Springs ...

We found ten communities that share the name The Springs.

There are two communities within New York that are also named The Springs.

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

Communities Located In New York ...
- Saratoga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of The Springs [Saratoga County].
- Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of The Springs [Suffolk County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Humboldt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of The Springs [Humboldt County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of The Springs [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Clayton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of The Springs [Clayton County].
- Kansas
  - Brown 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 Kansas community of The Springs [Brown County].
  - Labette County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of The Springs [Labette County].
- Massachusetts
  - Barnstable County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of The Springs [Barnstable County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of The Springs [Somerset County].
- South Dakota
  - Potter 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 South Dakota community of The Springs [Potter County].

More Orphans in Suffolk 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 Suffolk County.

Atlanticville	Nassau Point
	Newsday
Baiting Hollow Station	North Shore Beach
Bergen Park	North Smithtown
Bresleau
Brookville Park	Oakdale Station
	Old Field South
Calverton - Roanoke	Olympic
Cold Spring Terrace	Oregon
Colonial Springs
Cutchogue - New Suffolk	Penataquit
	Pinelawn
Denton Hills	Plum Island
Dunewood	Promised Land

East Half Hollow Hills	Remsenburg - Speonk
East Hampton North	Republic
East Huntington	Riverside - Flanders
East Lake Ronkonkoma	Robins Island
East Neck	Ronkonkoma West
Echo
Edgewood	Saint James Heights
Elwood Farms	Saint Johnland
	Santapoque
Forge	Saxon Park
Fresh Pond	Seatuck
	Setauket - East Setauket
Gardiners Island	Shorewood
Good Ground	Smithtown Branch
Greenport West	Smithtown Pines
	South Holbrook
Half Hollow Hills	South Stony Brook
Harbor Heights Park
Heatherwood North	Tiana Shores
Heatherwood South
Holbrook - Holtsville	Waterside Park
	Waverly
Jersey Colony	West Brentwood
	West Huntington
Lake Panamoka	West Mecox
Lake Ronkonkoma Heights	West Ronkonkoma
	West Saint James
Madison Park	West Smithtown
Manor Station	West Yaphank
Miller's Place	Wickman Park
	Wildwood Lake

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 The Springs 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.