Do you know of Sweetwater ???

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

Our sources for Sweetwater (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 Sweetwater other than they indicate that Sweetwater would be found somewhere in Esmeralda County, Nevada.

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 Sweetwater ...

We found 32 communities that share the name Sweetwater.

There is one other community in Nevada which is also named Sweetwater.

Beyond Nevada, we know of another 31 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 31 communities, 31 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In Nevada ...
- Lyon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Sweetwater [Lyon County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Limestone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sweetwater [Limestone County].
- Arizona
  - Apache 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 Arizona community of Sweetwater [Apache County].
  - Pima County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Sweetwater [Pima County].
  - Pinal County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Sweetwater [Pinal County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Sweetwater.
- California
  - Shasta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Sweetwater [Shasta County].
- Colorado
  - Eagle 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 Colorado community of Sweetwater [Eagle County].
- Florida
  - Duval County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sweetwater [Duval County].
  - Hardee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sweetwater [Hardee County].
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sweetwater [Hillsborough County].
  - Liberty County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sweetwater [Liberty County].
  - Miami-Dade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sweetwater [Miami-Dade County].
- Idaho
  - Nez Perce County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Sweetwater [Nez Perce County].
- Illinois
  - Menard 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 Illinois community of Sweetwater [Menard County].
- Kansas
  - Ellis 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 Sweetwater [Ellis County].
- Missouri
  - Newton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sweetwater [Newton County].
  - Reynolds 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 Missouri community of Sweetwater [Reynolds County].
- Montana
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Sweetwater [Madison County].
- Nebraska
  - Buffalo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Sweetwater [Buffalo County].
- New Jersey
  - Atlantic County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Sweetwater [Atlantic County].
- New Mexico
  - Colfax County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Sweetwater [Colfax County].
- North Carolina
  - Catawba County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sweetwater [Catawba County].
  - Watauga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sweetwater [Watauga County].
- North Dakota
  - Ramsey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Sweetwater [Ramsey County].
- Oklahoma
  - Beckham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Sweetwater [Beckham County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sweetwater [Franklin County].
- South Carolina
  - Aiken County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Sweetwater [Aiken County].
- Tennessee
  - Lewis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sweetwater [Lewis County].
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sweetwater [Monroe County].
- Texas
  - Comanche 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 Texas community of Sweetwater [Comanche County].
  - Nolan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sweetwater [Nolan County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sweetwater ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Sweetwater - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

George#&160;F. Cram Map of Nevada (1883)
Published by A.C. Shewey & Co.

More Orphans in Esmeralda 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 Esmeralda County.

Basalt	Pine Grove
Belleville
	Queen
Fletcher
	Rhode
Junction	Rio Vista

Luning	Soda Springs
	Sodaville
New Boston	Summit

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 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 Sweetwater 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.