Do you know of North Girard ???

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

Our sources for North Girard (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 North Girard other than they indicate that North Girard would be found somewhere in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1904 and closed  in 1954.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North Girard ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

New York Central Railroad Time Table (April 1950)
Published by New York Central Railroad

New York Central Railroad Time Table (June 1941)
Published by New York Central Railroad

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for North Girard.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/55064   (Place Name: North Girard)

County: Erie     (FIPS State/County: 42/049)

Class: X3

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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 Erie County.