Do you know of Fairport ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fairport. 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 Fairport.
Our sources for Fairport (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 Fairport other than they indicate that Fairport would be found somewhere in Lake County, Ohio.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1818 and closed in 1856.
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 Fairport ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Fairport.
Within Ohio, the name Fairport is unique.
Beyond Ohio, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Modoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fairport [Modoc County].
- Iowa
- Muscatine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Fairport [Muscatine County].
- Kansas
- Riley 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 Kansas community of Fairport [Riley County].
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Fairport [Russell County].
- Michigan
- Delta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Fairport [Delta County].
- Lenawee 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 Michigan community of Fairport [Lenawee County].
- Mississippi
- Noxubee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Fairport [Noxubee County].
- Missouri
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Fairport [DeKalb County].
- New York
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fairport [Monroe County].
- North Carolina
- Granville County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Fairport [Granville County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Fairport.
- Virginia
- Northumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fairport [Northumberland County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fairport ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fairport:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fairport - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned
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
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia & Piedmont
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Fairport.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 39/26292 (Place Name: Fairport)
County: Lake (FIPS State/County: 39/085)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Lake 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 Lake 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 Fairport 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/ |