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Do you know of Wayne Four Corners ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wayne Four Corners. 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 Wayne Four Corners.

Our sources for Wayne Four Corners (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 Wayne Four Corners other than they indicate that Wayne Four Corners would be found somewhere in Steuben County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1828 and closed  in 1903.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wayne Four Corners ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Wayne Four Corners - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

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

More Orphans in  Steuben 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 Steuben County.

Addison HillMulhollon
  
Bennett's CreekNeil's Creek
Blood's DepotNelson
Blood'sNorth Jasper
BrimmersvilleNorthside
  
CampbelltownPeltonville
CarsonPortway
Cold Spring MillsPurdy Creek
Cold Spring 
CooksQuackenbush Hill
Cooper Plains 
CoopersRathboneville
 Renchan's Mills
East TroupsburghRose
Erwin 
 Shannon
Goodhue LakeSouth Howard
 Stove Pipe City
HighupSwale
Hornellsville 
 Tontine
JerseyTowelsville
  
LawrencevilleVan Fleet
Lynn 
 West Rathbone
MerchantvilleWiley's Corners
MossyglenWileysville
Mud Creek 

Footnotes ...

<1>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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