Do you know of Homer ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Homer. 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 Homer.
We found mention of Homer as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Potter 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 1849 and closed in 1870.
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 Homer ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Homer.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Homer is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 29 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Homer [DeKalb County].
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Homer.
- California
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Homer [San Bernardino County].
- Georgia
- Banks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Homer [Banks County].
- Illinois
- Champaign County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Homer [Champaign County].
- Indiana
- Rush County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Homer [Rush County].
- Iowa
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Homer [Hamilton County].
- Kansas
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Homer [Russell County].
- Kentucky
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Homer [Logan County].
- Louisiana
- Claiborne Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Homer [Claiborne Parish].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Winona County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Homer [Winona County].
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Dakota County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Homer [Dakota County].
- Nevada
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Homer [Lincoln County].
- New York
- Cortland County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Homer [Cortland County].
- North Dakota
- Stutsman County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Homer [Stutsman County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pontotoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Homer [Pontotoc County].
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Homer [Grant County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Homer ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Homer:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Potter 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 Potter County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Homer 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |