Do you know of Newell ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Newell. 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 Newell.
Our sources for Newell (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 Newell other than they indicate that Newell would be found somewhere in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1897.
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 Newell ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Newell.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Newell.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Newell [Fayette County].
- Fayette County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Newell [Randolph County].
- Arkansas
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Newell [Union County].
- California
- Modoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Newell [Modoc County].
- Georgia
- Charlton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Newell [Charlton County].
- Illinois
- Vermilion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Newell [Vermilion County].
- Iowa
- Buena Vista County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Newell [Buena Vista County].
- Kentucky
- North Carolina
- Mecklenburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Newell [Mecklenburg County].
- Ohio
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Newell [Jefferson County].
- South Carolina
- Anderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Newell [Anderson County].
- South Dakota
- Butte County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Newell [Butte County].
- Tennessee
- Gibson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Newell [Gibson County].
- West Virginia
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Newell [Hancock County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Newell ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Newell:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Sullivan 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 Sullivan County.
| Cherry | |
| Newall | |
| Forestville | |
| Ricketts | |
| Glidewell | Ringville |
| Hemlock Grove | Satterfield Junction |
| Strawbridge | |
| Muncy Bottom |
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 Newell 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/ |