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Do you know of West Addison ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about West Addison. 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 West Addison.<1>

We found mention of West Addison as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Steuben County, New York.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1831 and closed  in 1874.

Communities Also Named West Addison ...

We found one communities that share the name West Addison.

Within New York, the name West Addison is unique.

Beyond New York, there is another community also named West Addison in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Vermont
      • Addison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of West Addison [Addison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Addison ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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

More Orphans in  Steuben 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 Steuben County.

Addison HillMulhollon
  
Bennett's CreekNeil's Creek
Blood's DepotNelson
Blood'sNorth Jasper
BrimmersvilleNorthside
  
CampbelltownPeltonville
CarsonPineville
Cold Spring MillsPond Settlement
Cold SpringPortway
CooksPurdy Creek
Cooper Plains 
CoopersQuackenbush Hill
Cossville 
CrosbyvilleRathboneville
 Renchan's Mills
East CanisteoRose
East Painted Post 
East TroupsburghShannon
ErwinSouth Hill
 South Howard
Goodhue LakeSouth Pultney
 Stove Pipe City
HighupSwale
Hornellsville 
 Taggart
JerseyTontine
JulianaTowelsville
  
KnoxvilleVan Fleet
  
LawrencevilleWayland Depot
LynnWayne Four Corners
Lyons HollowWest Jasper
 West Rathbone
MerchantvilleWiley's Corners
MossyglenWileysville
Mud Creek 

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>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.
<3>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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