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Do you know of Wilderness ???

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

Our sources for Wilderness (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 Wilderness other than they indicate that Wilderness would be found somewhere in Clay County, Florida.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1874 and closed  in 1890.

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 Wilderness ...

We found four communities that share the name Wilderness.

Within Florida, the name Wilderness is unique.

Beyond Florida, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Saint Mary's County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Wilderness [Saint Mary's County].
    • Missouri
      • Oregon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wilderness [Oregon County].
    • Virginia
      • Orange County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wilderness [Orange County].
    • Washington
      • King County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Wilderness [King County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wilderness ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wilderness:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Wilderness - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in  Clay 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 Clay County.

AllenLakview
  
Bellair WestMagnolia
BrooklynMcRae
 Meadowbrook
East Sharon 
 Newbury
Federal HillNovella
Fleming 
FlorencePeoria
  
Green Cove JunctionSaranac
 Sharon
IoniaSun Garden
  
Lakeview StationWilkinson's

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 09 Mar 2024