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Do you know of Chapinville ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1855 and closed  in 1892.

Communities Also Named Chapinville ...

We found four communities that share the name Chapinville.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Chapinville is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Connecticut
      • Litchfield County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Chapinville [Litchfield County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Worcester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Chapinville [Worcester County].
    • New York
      • Ontario County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Chapinville [Ontario County].
      • Otsego County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Chapinville [Otsego County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Chapinville ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Chapinville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Crawford 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 Crawford County.

BloomfieldMackeyhill
Blystone MillMcGinnett
BlystoneMead Corners
BoussonMillers
BrownhillMohawk
Buchanan 
BuellNebbons Hill
Buells CornersNoble's
 North Shenango
Calvin's Corners 
CambridgeOakland Beach
Center Road StationOil Creek
Colton 
ConneattsvillePatrons
Conneaut LakeshorePennside Station
CussawagoPettis
 Plateau Heights
Dutch Hill 
 Randolph
East BloomfieldRockdale
Espyville StationRoyalton
Evansburgh 
Evansburgh StationSaegerstown
ExpositionShadeland Station
 Shaw
FallowfieldShaws
Fieldmore SpringsShelmadine Springs
Fountain HouseSouth Meadville
 South Shenango
GehrtonSteuben
GlyndonSturgis
Grange CornersSturtevant
Gray's MillsSugar Creek
GuichardSugar Lake
 Summit
Harmonsburgh Station 
HayfieldTamarac
  
JewelUnity
  
Kastors CornersVallonia
  
Line MillsWest Greenwood
Little CornersWilson's Mills
 Wing

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>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 Chapinville 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.
<3>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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