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Do you know of West Lexington ???

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

We found mention of West Lexington as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Greene 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 1840 and closed  in 1859.

Communities Also Named West Lexington ...

We found one communities that share the name West Lexington.

Within New York, the name West Lexington is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Covington City
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of West Lexington [Covington City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Lexington ...

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

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

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  Greene 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 Greene County.

Beaches CornerLoonenburg
Big Hollow 
BushnellsvilleMountain House Station
  
Catskill LandingNew Baltimore Station
Catskill Village 
ChichestersPrentiss
  
East KillRedfalls
East Lexington 
EmbogchtScienceville
 Smith's Landing
Great FallsSportsville
 Stanton Hill
Haines' CornersStony Clove
  
IrvingsvilleUnion Society
 Urlton
Jefferson 
 West Baltimore
KaaterskillWest Catskill
 West Shore Station
Laurel House StationWindham Centre
Leeds - Elting ParkWindham - Hensonville
Lexington Heights 

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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