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Do you know of Gordontown ???

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

We found mention of Gordontown as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Clarion 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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1915 and closed  in 1925.

Communities Also Named Gordontown ...

We found one communities that share the name Gordontown.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Gordontown is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Davidson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Gordontown [Davidson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gordontown ...

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

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

More Orphans in  Clarion 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 Clarion County.

Black'sMatildaville
BlairsMaysville
Blue Goose MineMillville
BostoniaMong
Brady 
Broken RockNew Mayville
BrynersNorth Clarion Junction
Burma 
 Oak Ridge
Catfish FurnaceOre Bank
Cheerful 
Cherry RunParker
ChurchParkers Landing
ClimaxPew
Clinton FurnacePhilipston
CunninghamPickwick
 Piney
DeHavenPollock
  
EdenburgRed Bank
ElkReimersburgh
 Richmond
FramptonRitts
FredellRiver
  
HaskillSchills
HaynieScrubridge
HeidrickShannon
 Shippensville
Jefferson FurnaceShowers
JohnlowenSidell
 Staab
Kahle Siding 
 Turkey
Leatherwood Station 
Little TobyValley
Long Point 
Long RunWest Clarion
Lower HeidelbergWest Millville
Lucinda FurnaceWilson
  

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.
<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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