Do you know of Sunny Side ???

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

Our sources for Sunny Side (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 Sunny Side other than they indicate that Sunny Side would be found somewhere in Wright County, Missouri.

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 Sunny Side ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Sunny Side.

Within Missouri, the name Sunny Side is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Spalding County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sunny Side [Spalding County].
- Kansas
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Sunny Side [Montgomery County].
  - Wichita County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Sunny Side [Wichita County].
- New Mexico
  - Colfax County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Sunny Side [Colfax County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Allegheny County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sunny Side [Allegheny County].
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sunny Side [Bedford County].
- South Carolina
  - Georgetown County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Sunny Side [Georgetown County].
- Tennessee
  - Henry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sunny Side [Henry County].
  - Sequatchie 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 Tennessee community of Sunny Side [Sequatchie County].
- Texas
  - Harris County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sunny Side [Harris County].
  - Waller County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sunny Side [Waller County].
- Utah
  - Salt Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Sunny Side [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
  - Buckingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Sunny Side [Buckingham County].
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Sunny Side [Cumberland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sunny Side ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Sunny Side - 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 Wright 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 Wright County.

Aurora	Omega

Cave Spring	Pleasant Valley
	Plunk
Dugan
	Roubidoux
Gage
Geraldine	Sacramento
Grimes
	Whet Stone
Mint	Woodbury
Mountain Grove Station	Worsham

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 Sunny Side 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.