Do you know of West River ???

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

Our sources for West River (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 River other than they indicate that West River would be found somewhere in Yates County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1812 and closed  in 1904.

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 River ...

We found six communities that share the name West River.

Within New York, the name West River is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, .

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Maryland
    • Anne Arundel County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of West River [Anne Arundel County].
  • New Brunswick
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of West River.
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of West River.
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of West River.
  • Prince Edward Island
    • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of West River.
  • Wyoming
    • Washakie County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of West River [Washakie County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West River ...

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

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 River - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Yates 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 Yates County.