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Do you know of De Lancey ???

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

Our sources for De Lancey (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 De Lancey other than they indicate that De Lancey would be found somewhere in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888.

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 De Lancey ...

We found one communities that share the name De Lancey.

Within Pennsylvania, the name De Lancey is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New York
      • Delaware County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of De Lancey [Delaware County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for De Lancey ...

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

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

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for De Lancey.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/18656   (Place Name: De Lancey (Adrian Mines))

County: Jefferson     (FIPS State/County: 42/065)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, De Lancey) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Jefferson 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 Jefferson County.

AlvanHeath Station
ArjayHopkins
  
BellIndiana Junction
Big Run JunctionIowa Mills
Big Run 
Blaisdell JunctionKirkman
Blue RockKnoxdale
Brockwayville 
 Lindsey
Camp Run 
Canoe CreekMauk
Carrier 
ColemanOnondaga
Cravens 
 Patton's Station
DellwoodPekin
DolingvillePrendible
DunklePueblo
  
EleanorRayard
Elk Run JunctionReynoldsville Station
ErdiceRockdale Mills
  
Finley MillsSebeck
FlorenzaSherwood
ForestvilleShort's Mills
FurnondagaSoldier's Run
 Sykes
Garrison's 
Grand ViewVantassel
GrangeVineyard Run
Grove Summit 
GuamWalston Junction
 Williams

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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