Do you know of Woodford ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Woodford. 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 Woodford.
Our sources for Woodford (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 Woodford other than they indicate that Woodford would be found somewhere in Delaware County, New York.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1935.
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.
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.
Communities Also Named Woodford ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Woodford.
Within New York, the name Woodford is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- California
- Kern County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Woodford [Kern County].
- Illinois
- Woodford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Woodford [Woodford County].
- Maryland
- Missouri
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Woodford [Clay County].
- North Carolina
- Ashe County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Woodford [Ashe County].
- Randolph County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Woodford [Randolph County].
- Ohio
- Hamilton County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Woodford [Hamilton County].
- Huron County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Woodford [Huron County].
- Oklahoma
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Woodford [Carter County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Woodford.
- South Carolina
- Orangeburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Woodford [Orangeburg County].
- Tennessee
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Woodford [Montgomery County].
- Vermont
- Bennington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Woodford [Bennington County].
- Virginia
- Caroline County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Woodford [Caroline County].
- Wisconsin
- Lafayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Woodford [Lafayette County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Woodford ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Woodford:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Delaware 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 Delaware County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Woodford 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |