Do you know of Westminster ???

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

We found mention of Westminster as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Reno County, Kansas.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1873 and closed in 1881.

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 Westminster ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Westminster.

Within Kansas, the name Westminster is unique.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Westminster [Orange County].
- Colorado
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Westminster [Jefferson County].
- Connecticut
  - Windham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Westminster [Windham County].
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Westminster [New Castle County].
- Florida
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Westminster [Hillsborough County].
- Illinois
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Westminster [Shelby County].
- Louisiana
  - East Baton Rouge Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Westminster [East Baton Rouge Parish].
- Maryland
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Westminster [Carroll County].
- Massachusetts
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Westminster [Worcester County].
- Michigan
  - Grand Traverse 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 Westminster [Grand Traverse County].
- North Carolina
  - Rutherford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Westminster [Rutherford County].
- Ohio
  - Allen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Westminster [Allen 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 Westminster.
- Pennsylvania
  - Erie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Westminster [Erie County].
  - Luzerne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Westminster [Luzerne County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Westminster.
- South Carolina
  - Oconee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Westminster [Oconee County].
- Texas
  - Brazoria County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Westminster [Brazoria County].
  - Collin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Westminster [Collin County].
- Vermont
  - Windham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Westminster [Windham County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Westminster ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

More Orphans in Reno 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 Reno 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Westminster 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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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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