Do you know of West Point ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about West Point. 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 West Point.
Our sources for West Point (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 West Point other than they indicate that West Point would be found somewhere in Rush County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1894.
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 West Point ...
We found 34 communities that share the name West Point.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named West Point.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 33 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 33 communities, 31 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Geary 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 West Point [Geary County].
- Geary County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Calhoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of West Point [Calhoun County].
- Cullman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of West Point [Cullman County].
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of West Point [Morgan County].
- Arkansas
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of West Point [Benton County].
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of West Point [White County].
- California
- Calaveras County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of West Point [Calaveras County].
- Georgia
- Bibb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of West Point [Bibb County].
- Troup County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of West Point [Troup County].
- Illinois
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of West Point [Hancock County].
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of West Point [Jackson County].
- Iowa
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of West Point [Lee County].
- Kentucky
- Hardin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of West Point [Hardin County].
- Louisiana
- Plaquemines Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of West Point [Plaquemines Parish].
- Maine
- Sagadahoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of West Point [Sagadahoc County].
- Michigan
- Delta 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 Michigan community of West Point [Delta County].
- Minnesota
- Isanti County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of West Point [Isanti County].
- Mississippi
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of West Point [Clay County].
- Nebraska
- Cuming County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of West Point [Cuming County].
- Nevada
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of West Point [Clark County].
- New York
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of West Point [Orange County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of West Point.
- Ohio
- Columbiana County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Point [Columbiana County].
- Morrow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Point [Morrow County].
- Oklahoma
- Payne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of West Point [Payne County].
- Ontario
- 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 Ontario community of West Point.
- Pennsylvania
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of West Point [Cambria County].
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of West Point [Montgomery County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of West Point.
- South Dakota
- Minnehaha 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 South Dakota community of West Point [Minnehaha County].
- Texas
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of West Point [Fayette County].
- Lynn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of West Point [Lynn County].
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of West Point [Davis County].
- Virginia
- King William County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of West Point [King William County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Point ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about West Point:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for West Point - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Rush 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 Rush County.
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 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 West Point 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |