Post Offices and Postmasters

What follows is a listing of all New York State post offices and postmasters, by county, plus the New York State Offices Master Index that gives the offices in alphabetical order, and locates them by county, etc. This work has been compiled by Thomas C. Mazza, who is happy to make it available for use on our website, but retains the material rights.

NY Post Offices Master Index

pdfNew York Offices – Alphabetical Master Index

Counties listed Alphabetically

pdf Albany County
pdf Allegany County
pdf Broome County
pdf Cattaraugus County
pdf Cayuga County
pdf Chautauqua County
pdf Chemung County
pdf Chenango County
pdf Clinton County
pdf Columbia County
pdf Cortland County
pdf Delaware County
pdf Dutchess County
pdf Erie County
pdf Essex County
pdf Franklin County
pdf Fulton County
pdf Genesee County
pdf Greene County
pdf Hamilton County
pdf Herkimer County
pdf Jefferson County
pdf Kings County
pdf Lewis County
pdf Livingston County
pdf Madison County
pdf Monroe County
pdf Montgomery County
pdf Nassau County
pdf New York County
pdf Niagara County
pdf Oneida County
pdf Onondaga County
pdf Ontario County
pdf Orange County
pdf Orleans County
pdf Oswego County
pdf Otsego County
pdf Putnam County
pdf Queens County
pdf Rensselaer County
pdf Richmond County
pdf Rockland County
pdf Saint Lawrence County
pdf Saratoga County
pdf Schenectady County
pdf Schoharie County
pdf Schuyler County
pdf Seneca County
pdf Steuben County
pdf Suffolk County
pdf Sullivan County
pdf Tioga County
pdf Tompkins County
pdf Ulster County
pdf Warren County
pdf Washington County
pdfWayne-County
pdf Westchester County
pdf Wyoming County
pdf Yates County

A Word About Inclusions

The listing only covers post offices through end of the nineteenth century (not all, and i.e., by December 31, 1900) and postmasters of those offices who were appointed through the end of 1910 (in order to give some substance to late offices, and to cover periods of Doane, RFD, etc. activity). This does leave out offices, and postmasters, and even at least one county (Bronx). The economic information is from the Official Register listings (1816, then 1817 and every two years thereafter), which give the reported results from the postmasters, showing compensation (throughout), and from the 1841 through the 1869 editions, the excess proceeds which were to be paid over to the P.O. department (which, for those years, would together represent the turnover of the office.) All years are for the fiscal year ending in the year of publication (mostly a July 1 to June 30 fiscal year, although there was some variation prior to the 1840’s). All years are given for one year periods except the 1843 figures, which are for July 1, 1841 to June 30, 1843, a two fiscal year period. There are some differences from the information reported by Johnny Kay, but I have tried to indicate where that occurs. TCM