Do you know of Willows ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Willows. 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 Willows.
Our sources for Willows (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Willows other than they indicate that Willows would be found somewhere in Griggs County, North Dakota.
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 Willows ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Willows.
Within North Dakota, the name Willows is unique.
Beyond North Dakota, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 22 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Glenn County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Willows [Glenn County].
- Marin 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 California community of Willows [Marin County].
- San Diego County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Willows [San Diego County].
- San Mateo County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Willows [San Mateo County].
- Santa Cruz County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Willows [Santa Cruz County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Willows [Sussex County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Willows [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Willows [Cook County].
- Maryland
- Calvert County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Willows [Calvert County].
- Harford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Willows [Harford County].
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Willows [Howard County].
- Massachusetts
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Willows [Middlesex County].
- Mississippi
- Claiborne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Willows [Claiborne County].
- Montana
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Willows.
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Willows [Rockingham County].
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Gilliam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Willows [Gilliam County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Willows.
- Virginia
- Stafford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Willows [Stafford County].
- Washington
- King County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Willows [King County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Willows ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Willows:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Willows - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Griggs 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 Griggs County.
| Cottonwood | |
| Ottawa | |
| Gallatin | |
| Romness | |
| Helena |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Willows 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. |