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Do you know of Freewater ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Freewater. 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 Freewater. Our sources for Freewater (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 Freewater other than they indicate that Freewater would be found somewhere in Umatilla County, Oregon. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1951. 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. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Freewater ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Freewater: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Freewater - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939)
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Freewater. Referenced FIPS Records ... FIPS Code: 41/27150 (Place Name: Freewater) County: Umatilla (FIPS State/County: 41/059) Class: U4 Identifies a populated place (ie- Freewater) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place. More Orphans in Umatilla 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 Umatilla County.
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