Do you know of Summit Mountain ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Summit Mountain. 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 Summit Mountain.<1>
Our sources for Summit Mountain (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 Summit Mountain other than they indicate that Summit Mountain would be found somewhere in Ulster County, New York.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1882 and closed in 1906.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Summit Mountain ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Summit Mountain:
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.
Found a mention of Summit Mountain, but no details.
More Orphans in Ulster 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 Ulster 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |