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Do you know of Stokes ???

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

Our sources for Stokes (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 Stokes other than they indicate that Stokes would be found somewhere in Oneida County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1825 and closed  in 1935.

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 Stokes ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Stokes.

Within New York, the name Stokes is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Conecuh County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Stokes [Conecuh County].
      • Tuscaloosa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Stokes [Tuscaloosa County].
    • Arkansas
      • Randolph County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Stokes [Randolph County].
    • Florida
      • Putnam 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 Florida community of Stokes [Putnam County].
    • Illinois
      • White County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Stokes [White County].
    • Kentucky
      • Russell 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 Kentucky community of Stokes [Russell County].
    • Mississippi
      • Coahoma County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Stokes [Coahoma County].
      • Madison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Stokes [Madison County].
    • North Carolina
      • Caswell 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 North Carolina community of Stokes [Caswell County].
      • Pitt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Stokes [Pitt County].
      • Wilkes County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Stokes [Wilkes County].
    • Ohio
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Stokes [Warren County].
    • Oregon
      • Umatilla 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 Oregon community of Stokes [Umatilla County].
    • South Carolina
      • Berkeley County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Stokes [Berkeley County].
      • Clarendon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Stokes [Clarendon County].
      • Colleton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Stokes [Colleton County].
      • Hampton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Stokes [Hampton County].
    • Tennessee
      • Dyer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Stokes [Dyer County].
    • Virginia
      • Goochland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Stokes [Goochland County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Door 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 Wisconsin community of Stokes [Door County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Stokes ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

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

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Stokes.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/71498   (Place Name: Stokes (Stokes Corner))

County: Oneida     (FIPS State/County: 36/065)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Stokes) 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  Oneida 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 Oneida County.

Alder Creek StationKayuta Lake
 Kayuta
BaretownKernan
Butterfield 
 Leila
Capron 
Centerbury HillNew York Mills Gardens
Chadwick's MillsNorth Steuben
Clark's Mills 
ColemansPlains
 Prospect Station
Deansville 
DunbartonRichfield Junction
DunhamRidgewood
 Ringdahl Court
East Florence 
East UticaSangerfield Centre
EnosSouth Utica
 Sylvan
Fish Creek 
Forestport StationTaberg Station
 Trenton Assembly Park
Glenhaven 
Green's CornersWest Camden
 West Utica
Harts HillWest Vienna
HaseltonWhite Lake Corners
Herthum HeightsWhite Lake
Honnedaga LakeWillow Vale
 Wood Creek

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Stokes 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/









 

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