Do you know of Ormsby ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1861 and closed  in 1874.

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 Ormsby ...

We found four communities that share the name Ormsby.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Ormsby.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
  • McKean County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ormsby [McKean County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Minnesota
    • Watonwan County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ormsby [Watonwan County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ormsby.
  • Wisconsin
    • Langlade County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Ormsby [Langlade County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ormsby ...

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

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 Ormsby - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Allegheny 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 Allegheny County.