Do you know of Wilton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wilton. 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 Wilton.
Our sources for Wilton (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 Wilton other than they indicate that Wilton would be found somewhere in Camden County, New Jersey.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1884 and closed in 1898.
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 Wilton ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Wilton.
Within New Jersey, the name Wilton is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Wilton [Shelby County].
- Arkansas
- Little River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Wilton [Little River County].
- California
- Sacramento County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Wilton [Sacramento County].
- Connecticut
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Wilton [Fairfield County].
- Illinois
- Will County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Wilton [Will County].
- Iowa
- Muscatine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Wilton [Muscatine County].
- Kansas
- Greenwood 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 Kansas community of Wilton [Greenwood County].
- Phillips County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Wilton [Phillips County].
- Pottawatomie County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Wilton [Pottawatomie County].
- Kentucky
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wilton [Knox County].
- Maine
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Wilton [Franklin County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wilton [Boone County].
- New Hampshire
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Wilton [Hillsborough County].
- New York
- Saratoga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Wilton [Saratoga County].
- North Carolina
- Granville County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Wilton [Granville County].
- North Dakota
- McLean County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Wilton [McLean County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Wilton.
- Virginia
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wilton [Middlesex County].
- Wisconsin
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Wilton [Monroe County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wilton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wilton:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Wilton - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
More Orphans in Camden 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 Camden County.
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 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 Wilton 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |