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Do you know of Columbia Farm ???

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

We found mention of Columbia Farm as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

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 1869 and closed  in 1885.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Columbia Farm ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Venango 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 Venango County.

Balliett'sMcClintockville
BaumMiller Farm
Big Bend 
BoughtonOil Creek
Brereton 
Burning WellPatchel Run
 Plum
CanalPolk Junction
CassPorterfield
Clapp FarmPrentice
ColumbiaPresident Furnace
Cornplanter 
Crawford CornersReed
 Roberts' Run
East Sandy StationRockland Station
 Rockwood
Fee 
FloydScrubgrass
FreedomSedgwick
 Sherman Wells
Goodmans CornersSidney
 South Oil City
Hennry's BendSpringville
Holland 
HoodvilleTarr Farm
 Tenmile Bottom
Imperial 
 Uniontown Heights
Kan City 
Kennerdell StationWalnut Bend
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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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