Do you know of West Summit ???

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

Our sources for West Summit (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 Summit other than they indicate that West Summit would be found somewhere in Union County, New Jersey.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1918.

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 Summit ...

We found one communities that share the name West Summit.

Within New Jersey, the name West Summit is unique.

Beyond New Jersey, there is another community also named West Summit in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Massachusetts
    • Berkshire County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of West Summit [Berkshire County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Summit ...

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

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 Summit - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

George#&160;F. Cram Map of New Jersey (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Union 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 Union County.