Do you know of Williamstown ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Williamstown. 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 Williamstown.
We found mention of Williamstown as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1819 and closed in 1862.
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 Williamstown ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Williamstown.
There are three communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Williamstown.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, twenty are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Dauphin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Williamstown [Dauphin County].
- Lehigh County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Williamstown [Lehigh County].
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Williamstown [Washington County].
- Dauphin County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Walker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Williamstown [Walker County].
- Georgia
- Fannin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Williamstown [Fannin County].
- Indiana
- Clay County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Williamstown [Clay County].
- Rush County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Williamstown [Rush County].
- Iowa
- Cedar County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Williamstown [Cedar County].
- Chickasaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Williamstown [Chickasaw County].
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Williamstown [Johnson County].
- Kansas
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Williamstown [Jefferson County].
- Kentucky
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Williamstown [Grant County].
- Massachusetts
- Berkshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Williamstown [Berkshire County].
- Missouri
- Lewis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Williamstown [Lewis County].
- New Brunswick
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Williamstown.
- New Jersey
- Gloucester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Williamstown [Gloucester County].
- New York
- Oswego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Williamstown [Oswego County].
- Ohio
- Defiance County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Williamstown [Defiance County].
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Williamstown [Hancock County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Williamstown.
- Vermont
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Williamstown [Orange County].
- West Virginia
- Wood County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Williamstown [Wood County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Williamstown ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Williamstown:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
The FIPS database contains an entry for Williamstown.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 42/85328 (Place Name: Williamstown)
County: Lancaster (FIPS State/County: 42/071)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Lancaster County ...
Can you help?
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 Lancaster County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Williamstown could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |