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Do you know of Vang Junction ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Vang Junction. 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 Vang Junction.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Vang Junction was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Vang Junction would be found somewhere in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Vang Junction ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Vang Junction.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 42/79816   (Place Name: Vang Junction)

County: Somerset     (FIPS State/County: 42/111)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Vang Junction) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Somerset 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 Somerset County.

AdamsMiddle Creek
AnnaMilford Station
AnsteadMiller Run
ArrowMishler
AtlanticMock
 Moons
Becks CutMount Healthy
Bethel 
BillsOld Junction
Border 
BrookPine Grove
 Pokeytown
ConnerPretoria
CosgrovePugh
Critchfield 
 Quemahoning Junction
DealQuemahoning
Dibertville 
Dividing RidgeReading Junction
 Reading Mines
Edgewood GroveRockingham
EdgewoodRoddys
Elk LickRushe's
  
FelixSanner
 Schweibinz
Garrett SlopeShade Furnace
GladdensSilbaugh
Grassy Run JunctionSnyder
GrazierSomerset Furnace
GriffinSouth Rockwood
 Southampton Mills
HarrisonSouthampton
HiyasotaStanton's Mill
HolsoppleStony Creek
HumbertsvilleStoughton
HuskinStrawn
  
KeimTannehill's
Keystone JunctionTub
Keystone StationTurkeyfoot
Kuhn 
 Welch
Laurel HillWhipkeys-Dam
LullWoodstown
  
Marble HillYoder
Metzer 

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.









 

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