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Do you know of Marshfield ???

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

Our sources for Marshfield (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 Marshfield other than they indicate that Marshfield would be found somewhere in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1860 and closed  in 1900.

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 Marshfield ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Marshfield.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Marshfield is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Scott County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Marshfield [Scott County].
      • Warren County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Marshfield [Warren County].
    • Maine
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Marshfield [Washington County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Plymouth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Marshfield [Plymouth County].
    • Michigan
      • Mecosta County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Marshfield [Mecosta County].
    • Missouri
      • Webster County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Marshfield [Webster County].
    • Nebraska
      • Sioux County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Marshfield [Sioux County].
    • New York
      • Erie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Marshfield [Erie County].
    • Ohio
      • Athens County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Marshfield [Athens County].
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Marshfield.
    • Oregon
      • Columbia County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Marshfield [Columbia County].
      • Coos County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Marshfield [Coos County].
    • Prince Edward Island
      • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Marshfield.
    • Vermont
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Marshfield [Washington County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Buffalo County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Marshfield [Buffalo County].
      • Wood County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Marshfield [Wood County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Marshfield ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Tioga 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 Tioga County.

Academy Corners 
 Lansing
Bailey CreekLathrop
Ben GulleyLeach's
Blue RunLloyd
 Lulu
Chatham Valley 
CreameryMatson's
CrosscutMiddlebury
 Mitchell's Creek
Daggett's MillsMitchells
Darling Run 
DavisNorth Fork
Delmar 
 Oppelsville
East Charleston 
East ChathamPhillips Station
East LawrencevillePurplebrook
Ebenton 
Elk RunRill
 Rutland
Gurnee Junction 
 Somerville
HagarsStone Mill
HartfieldSullivan
HartfordSummit
Hill's Creek 
HolidayVoltus
  
Johnson BrookWalker
 Watrous
Knapp 

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Marshfield 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/









 

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