Do you know of Washington Heights ???

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

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

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 Washington Heights ...

We found 23 communities that share the name Washington Heights.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Washington Heights.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Oakland 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 Washington Heights [Oakland County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Washington Heights [Jefferson County].
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Washington Heights [New Castle County].
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Washington Heights [Sussex County].
- Georgia
  - Dougherty County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Washington Heights [Dougherty County].
  - Wilkes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Washington Heights [Wilkes County].
- Illinois
  - Cook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Washington Heights [Cook County].
- Maryland
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Washington Heights [Carroll County].
  - Wicomico County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Washington Heights [Wicomico County].
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Washington Heights [Middlesex County].
- New York
  - New York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Washington Heights [New York County].
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Washington Heights [Orange County].
- North Carolina
  - Cleveland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Washington Heights [Cleveland County].
  - Iredell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Washington Heights [Iredell County].
  - Pitt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Washington Heights [Pitt County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Washington Heights [Cumberland County].
- South Carolina
  - Spartanburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Washington Heights [Spartanburg County].
- Tennessee
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Washington Heights [Hamilton County].
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Washington Heights [Knox County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Washington Heights [Washington County].
- Vermont
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Washington Heights [Orange County].
- Virginia
  - Roanoke City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Washington Heights [Roanoke City].
- West Virginia
  - Boone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Washington Heights [Boone County].

More Orphans in Calhoun 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 Calhoun 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 Washington Heights 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.