Do you know of Enfield ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Enfield. 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 Enfield.
Our sources for Enfield (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 Enfield other than they indicate that Enfield would be found somewhere in Providence County, Rhode Island.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1908.
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 Enfield ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Enfield.
Within Rhode Island, the name Enfield is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
- Hartford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Enfield [Hartford County].
- Illinois
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Enfield [White County].
- Kansas
- Grant 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 Kansas community of Enfield [Grant County].
- Hamilton County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Enfield [Hamilton County].
- Rooks County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Enfield [Rooks County].
- Maine
- Penobscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Enfield [Penobscot County].
- Massachusetts
- Hampshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Enfield [Hampshire County].
- Minnesota
- Wright County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Enfield [Wright County].
- Nebraska
- New Hampshire
- Grafton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Enfield [Grafton County].
- New York
- Tompkins County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Enfield [Tompkins County].
- North Carolina
- Halifax County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Enfield [Halifax County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Enfield.
- Ohio
- Harrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Enfield [Harrison County].
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Enfield.
- Pennsylvania
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Enfield [Montgomery County].
- Virginia
- King William County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Enfield [King William County].
- Connecticut
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Enfield ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Enfield:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Enfield - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
More Orphans in Providence 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 Providence 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Enfield 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/ |