Do you know of Arsenal ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Arsenal. 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 Arsenal.

Our sources for Arsenal (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 Arsenal other than they indicate that Arsenal would be found somewhere in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1851 and closed  in 1868.

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 Arsenal ...

We found one communities that share the name Arsenal.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Arsenal is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named Arsenal in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Utah
    • Davis County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Arsenal [Davis County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Arsenal ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Arsenal.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/03176   (Place Name: Arsenal)

County: Allegheny     (FIPS State/County: 42/003)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Arsenal) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Allegheny County ...

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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 Allegheny County.