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Do you know of Wadsworth ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Wadsworth, so we are uncertain whether Wadsworth is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Wadsworth would be found somewhere in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

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 Wadsworth ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Wadsworth.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named Wadsworth.

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

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Butler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wadsworth [Butler County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Autauga County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Wadsworth [Autauga County].
    • Illinois
      • Lake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Wadsworth [Lake 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 Wadsworth [Ellis County].
      • Leavenworth County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Wadsworth [Leavenworth County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Norfolk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Wadsworth [Norfolk County].
    • Michigan
      • Huron 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 Michigan community of Wadsworth [Huron County].
    • Nevada
      • Washoe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Wadsworth [Washoe County].
    • New York
      • Livingston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Wadsworth [Livingston County].
    • Ohio
      • Medina County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wadsworth [Medina County].
    • South Carolina
      • Spartanburg County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Wadsworth [Spartanburg County].
    • Texas
      • Matagorda County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wadsworth [Matagorda County].

More Orphans in  Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia County.

BellevueLumar Park
Bellmont 
BonnafonMarket Square
 Melrose
CastorMiddle City
Chesnut HillMidvale
CommerceMount Moriah
Continental 
CynwydNorris
 North Philadelphia
East GermantownNortheast Village
East Side 
EngelsidePark Junction
EnglesideParshall
 Piersons
Fairhill Junction 
FairhillRichmond Junction
FallsRock Ledge
FidelityRosehill
Forest HillsRowlands
Fort Mifflin 
Frankford JunctionSandiford
 School Lane
Gibsons PointSchur's
Girard PointSedgwick
GorgasShackamaxon
GreenmountSouthwark
Greenwich 
 Temple
HarrowgateTulpehocken
Holmesburg Junction 
 Vernon Park
John WanamakerVerrees' Mills
  
Laurel HillWest Falls
LawntownWest Laurel Hill
LawtonWest Park
League IslandWest Philadelphia
LeveringtonWestmoreland
LiddonfieldWinghocking
LindleyWyndmoor

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Wadsworth 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.









 

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