Do you know of Liberty Square ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Liberty Square. 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 Liberty Square.

Our sources for Liberty Square (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 Liberty Square other than they indicate that Liberty Square would be found somewhere in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1850 and closed  in 1908.

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 Liberty Square ...

We found two communities that share the name Liberty Square.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Liberty Square is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Florida
    • Miami-Dade County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Liberty Square [Miami-Dade County].
  • New Jersey
    • Union County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Liberty Square [Union County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Liberty Square ...

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

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 Liberty Square - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Liberty Square.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/43160   (Place Name: Liberty Square)

County: Lancaster     (FIPS State/County: 42/071)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Liberty Square) 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  Lancaster 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 Lancaster County.