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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Gibsons Point, so we are uncertain whether Gibsons Point is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Gibsons Point would be found somewhere in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

More Orphans in  Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia County.

Andora 
 Market Square
BellevueMelrose
BellmontMiddle City
BonnafonMidvale
BustletownMount Moriah
  
CastorNorris
Chesnut HillNorth Philadelphia
CommerceNortheast Village
Continental 
CynwydOxford Station
  
East GermantownPark Junction
East SideParshall
EngelsidePiersons
Engleside 
 Richmond Junction
Fairhill JunctionRising Sun
FairhillRock Ledge
FallsRosehill
FidelityRowlands
Forest Hills 
Fort MifflinSandiford
Frankford JunctionSchool Lane
 Schur's
Girard PointSedgwick
GorgasShackamaxon
GreenmountSouthwark
Greenwich 
 Temple
HarrowgateTulpehocken
Holmesburg Junction 
 Vernon Park
John WanamakerVerrees' Mills
  
Laurel HillWadsworth
LawntownWest Falls
LawtonWest Laurel Hill
League IslandWest Park
LeveringtonWest Philadelphia
LiddonfieldWestmoreland
LindleyWinghocking
Lumar ParkWyndmoor

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>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.