Do you know of West Hanover ???

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

Our sources for West Hanover (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 West Hanover other than they indicate that West Hanover would be found somewhere in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1821 and closed  in 1895.

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 West Hanover ...

We found one communities that share the name West Hanover.

Within Pennsylvania, the name West Hanover is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named West Hanover in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Massachusetts
    • Plymouth County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of West Hanover [Plymouth County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Hanover ...

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

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 West Hanover - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

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

More Orphans in  Dauphin 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 Dauphin County.