Do you know of West Lawn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about West Lawn. 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 Lawn.
Our sources for West Lawn (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 West Lawn other than they indicate that West Lawn would be found somewhere in Douglas County, Nebraska.
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 Lawn ...
We found three communities that share the name West Lawn.
Within Nebraska, the name West Lawn is unique.
Beyond Nebraska, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of West Lawn [Cook County].
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Lawn ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about West Lawn:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for West Lawn - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Douglas 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 Douglas County.