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- The Post Office site location reports are arranged alphabetically by state (including the District of Colombia). Reports for states are followed by reports for territories (Panama Canal Zone, Guam, Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands).
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Feb 18, 2021 · The Post Office site location reports are arranged alphabetically by state (including the District of Colombia). Reports for states are followed by reports for territories (Panama Canal Zone, Guam, Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands).
May 7, 2014 · These reports themselves aren’t maps—though they might include rough sketches like the one below—but they do contain the same wealth of information in written form. Our Special Collection Center has a small collection of these reports on microfilm that includes Scott County and our nearest neighbors:
Post Office Department reports of site locations, 1837-1950. Roll 66, California, Santa Cruz-Sierra / National Archives, National Archives and Records ...
Scope and Contents. The record of forms and in most cases map sketches on which local postmasters supplied data to the Topographer of the U.S. Post Office Department for use in determining post office site locations relative to nearby post offices, transportation routes and facilities.
Although, over the years, site location reports changed in format, most requested the following information about a post office: (1) county and State (or Territory); (2) land description used by the Federal survey system (range, township, and section), if applicable; (3) mail route number and distance from the post office to the nearest mail
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May 5, 2024 · Post Office Reports of Site Locations, 1837–1950. This series of National Archives microfilm provides information on US post office locations. Verbal descriptions of locations are included as well as maps. Time period actually covered varies from one location to another.
microfilm publication M1126,Post Office Department Reports of Site Locations, 1837–1950 (683 rolls). These reports are arranged by state, then by county, then by post office. Postmasters described the location of the post office by geographic location (such as township, range,
