Do you know of West Fork ???

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

We found mention of West Fork as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Douglas County, Oregon.

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.

Communities Also Named West Fork ...

We found twelve communities that share the name West Fork.

Within Oregon, the name West Fork is unique.

Beyond Oregon, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of West Fork [Washington County].
- Delaware
  - Sussex 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 Delaware community of West Fork [Sussex County].
- Indiana
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of West Fork [Crawford County].
- Kentucky
  - Allen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of West Fork [Allen County].
  - Christian 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 Kentucky community of West Fork [Christian County].
- Missouri
  - Reynolds County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of West Fork [Reynolds County].
- Montana
  - Daniels County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of West Fork [Daniels County].
- South Dakota
  - Haakon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of West Fork [Haakon County].
- Tennessee
  - Overton 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 Tennessee community of West Fork [Overton County].
- Virginia
  - Pittsylvania County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of West Fork [Pittsylvania County].
- Washington
  - Ferry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of West Fork [Ferry County].
- West Virginia
  - Mercer 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 West Virginia community of West Fork [Mercer County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Fork ...

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

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

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

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)
Published by Southern Pacific Railroad

More Orphans in Douglas 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 Douglas County.

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 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 West Fork 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.