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Do you know of Windfall ???

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

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

Communities Also Named Windfall ...

We found six communities that share the name Windfall.

Within New York, the name Windfall is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Tipton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Windfall [Tipton County].
    • Louisiana
      • East Baton Rouge Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Windfall [East Baton Rouge Parish].
    • Ohio
      • Medina County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Windfall [Medina County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Windfall.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bradford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Windfall [Bradford County].
      • McKean County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Windfall [McKean County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Windfall ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

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  Onondaga 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 Onondaga County.

Aurora TractJordan Station
  
Bayberry - Lynelle MeadowsLynelle Meadows
Belle Isle 
Boysen BayManilius Station
 Manlius Center
CanalManlius Station
CaseMaple Bay
Chestnut HillMarcellus Station
CibroMarionville
CigarvilleMessina Springs
Clairemont Farms 
Clay StationOnativia Station
Cold SpringOnondaga Hollow
Colvin ElmwoodOnondaga Valley
ColvinOnondaga
Comstock TractOtt Meadows
  
DelphiPark Hill
DeSonoPlank Road
DeWitt CenterPleasant Beach
Dunhamville 
 Rock Cut
East Onondaga 
ElkhornSalina
Elmwood ParkSouth Bay
 South Marcelius
Fairfield FarmsSpafford Hollow
Fawn RidgeStiles Station
Fremont HillsSummit Station
 Syracuse Junction
Gales 
GeddesTeall
Glen SideThree Mile Point
 Three River Point
Hart LotTully Valley
Hartsville 
HomewoodWarner
Howlet HillWellington
 West Onondaga
Indian SpringsWinderest Park
Irongate 
 Zealand

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>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Windfall could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<4>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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