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Do you know of Willing ???

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

We found mention of Willing as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Allegany 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 1851 and closed  in 1856.

Communities Also Named Willing ...

We found one communities that share the name Willing.

Within New York, the name Willing is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Mississippi
      • Copiah County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Willing [Copiah County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Willing ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Allegany 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 Allegany County.

Alfred CentreMixville
AllenMorgan
Allensville 
 New Hudson
Bennett 
Brimmer BrookPalestine
 Philipsville
Canakedier 
CasesRiceburgh
CrownersRockville Lake
 Rounsville
East GrangerRushford Lake
East Rushford 
 Seymour
Five CornersStonedam
 Summit
Granger 
 Transit Bridge
Halbert 
Hardy'sUtopia
Henry's 
HobbievilleWest Genesee
Houghton CreekWest Shongo
 Whitney Crossings
InvaleWirt Center
  
KnightsvilleYork Corners
  

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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