Do you know of Guilford ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Guilford. 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 Guilford.
We found mention of Guilford as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Medina County, Ohio.
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.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1825 and closed in 1873.
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 Guilford ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Guilford.
There are three communities within Ohio that are also named Guilford.
Beyond Ohio, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Ohio ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Guilford [Pulaski County].
- Connecticut
- New Haven County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Guilford [New Haven County].
- Florida
- Bradford 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 Florida community of Guilford [Bradford County].
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Guilford [Union County].
- Illinois
- Jo Daviess County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Guilford [Jo Daviess County].
- Indiana
- Dearborn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Guilford [Dearborn County].
- Kansas
- Wilson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Guilford [Wilson County].
- Maine
- Piscataquis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Guilford [Piscataquis County].
- Maryland
- Missouri
- Nodaway County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Guilford [Nodaway County].
- New York
- Chenango County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Guilford [Chenango County].
- North Carolina
- Guilford County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Guilford [Guilford County].
- Pennsylvania
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Guilford [Franklin County].
- Vermont
- Windham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Guilford [Windham County].
- Virginia
- Accomack County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Guilford [Accomack County].
- Fairfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Guilford [Fairfax County].
- Roanoke City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Guilford [Roanoke City].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Guilford ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Guilford:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
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 Medina 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 Medina County.
| Burbank | Liverpool |
| Chatham Center | Munson |
| Dimocks | Quillin Siding |
| Eharte | Whittlesey |
| Wildwood Park | |
| Leroy |
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 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 Guilford 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/ |