Do you know of Olivers Mills ???

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

Our sources for Olivers Mills (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Olivers Mills other than they indicate that Olivers Mills would be found somewhere in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

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 Olivers Mills ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Olivers Mills - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

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 Olivers Mills.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/56752   (Place Name: Olivers Mills)

County: Luzerne     (FIPS State/County: 42/079)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Olivers Mills) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Luzerne 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 Luzerne County.