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Do you know of Dewitt ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Dewitt, so we are uncertain whether Dewitt 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 Dewitt would be found somewhere in Washington County, Kansas.

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 Dewitt ...

We found six communities that share the name Dewitt.

Within Kansas, the name Dewitt is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Marin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Dewitt [Marin County].
    • Kentucky
      • Knox County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Dewitt [Knox County].
    • North Carolina
      • Henderson 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 North Carolina community of Dewitt [Henderson County].
    • Virginia
      • Dinwiddie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Dewitt [Dinwiddie County].
      • Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Dewitt [Fairfax County].
    • West Virginia
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Dewitt [Fayette County].

More Orphans in  Washington 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 Washington County.

AlbiaJoy Creek
Austerlitz 
 Knowles
Ballard's FallsKoloko
Beekman 
BellLimestone
Brown RockLivington
 Luther
Campbell 
CarterMayton
Cedar GrangeMill Creek
CharlestonMormon Springs
ClaraMorton
Cloutman Spur 
Cottonwood StationNew Falls
Cromwell 
 Oak Grove
Dale's PeakOtoe
Day 
DoaneParallel
DonaldPeach Creek
Dry CreekPeach Grove
 Pleasant Hill
East HaddamProspect Hill
Elm GrovePunsley
Emmons 
ErinReiter
  
FremontSmeedville
 Springville
GerardySummit
Granville 
GreenwoodThroop
  
HopewellWarren
HopperWashington Center
 Wellbote
Jay CreekWest Clifton
JonahWest Union

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Dewitt 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.









 

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