Do you know of West Yorkshire ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about West Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire.<1> Our sources for West Yorkshire (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 West Yorkshire other than they indicate that West Yorkshire would be found somewhere in Cattaraugus County, New York. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1850 and closed in 1893. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Yorkshire ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about West Yorkshire: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for West Yorkshire - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
More Orphans in Cattaraugus 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 Cattaraugus County. Footnotes ...
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