Do you know of Wabash ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Wabash, so we are uncertain whether Wabash is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Wabash would be found somewhere in Polk County, Florida.

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 Wabash ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Wabash.

Within Florida, the name Wabash is unique.

Beyond Florida, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Phillips County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Wabash [Phillips County].
- California
  - Sierra County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Wabash [Sierra County].
- Illinois
  - Wayne 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 Illinois community of Wabash [Wayne County].
  - White 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 Illinois community of Wabash [White County].
- Indiana
  - Carroll 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 Wabash [Carroll County].
  - Wabash County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Wabash [Wabash County].
- Kansas
  - Gray 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 Wabash [Gray County].
- Kentucky
  - Hart County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wabash [Hart County].
- Nebraska
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Wabash [Cass County].
- Ohio
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wabash [Mercer County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Wabash.
- Pennsylvania
  - Allegheny 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 Pennsylvania community of Wabash [Allegheny County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Wabash.
- Virginia
  - Giles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wabash [Giles County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Wabash [King County].
  - Lewis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Wabash [Lewis County].
- West Virginia
  - Mineral County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Wabash [Mineral County].

More Orphans in Polk 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 Polk County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Wabash 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.