Do you know of Williamsport ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Williamsport, so we are uncertain whether Williamsport 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 Williamsport would be found somewhere in Pratt 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 Williamsport ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Williamsport.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Williamsport.

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Shawnee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Williamsport [Shawnee County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Williamsport [Warren County].
- Kentucky
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Williamsport [Johnson County].
- Louisiana
  - Pointe Coupee Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Williamsport [Pointe Coupee Parish].
- Maryland
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Williamsport [Washington County].
- Michigan
  - Manistee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Williamsport [Manistee County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Williamsport.
- North Dakota
  - Emmons 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 Dakota community of Williamsport [Emmons County].
- Ohio
  - Columbiana County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Williamsport [Columbiana County].
  - Morrow County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Williamsport [Morrow County].
  - Pickaway County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Williamsport [Pickaway County].
  - Stark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Williamsport [Stark County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Williamsport.
- Pennsylvania
  - Lycoming County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Williamsport [Lycoming County].
  - Northampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Williamsport [Northampton County].
- Tennessee
  - Maury County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Williamsport [Maury County].
- West Virginia
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Williamsport [Grant County].

More Orphans in Pratt 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 Pratt 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 Williamsport 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.