Do you know of West Newton ???

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

Our sources for West Newton (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 Newton other than they indicate that West Newton would be found somewhere in Nicollet County, Minnesota.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1862 and closed  in 1910.

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 Newton ...

We found five communities that share the name West Newton.

There is one other community in Minnesota which is also named West Newton.

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

• Communities Located In Minnesota ...
  • Wabasha County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of West Newton [Wabasha County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Indiana
    • Marion County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of West Newton [Marion County].
  • Massachusetts
    • Middlesex County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of West Newton [Middlesex County].
  • Ohio
    • Allen County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Newton [Allen County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Westmoreland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of West Newton [Westmoreland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Newton ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for West Newton - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Nicollet County ...

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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 Nicollet County.