Do you know of West Park ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of West Park, so we are uncertain whether West Park 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 West Park 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 West Park ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name West Park.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania which is also named West Park.

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

Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Allegheny County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of West Park [Allegheny County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Fresno County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of West Park [Fresno County].
- Delaware
  - New Castle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of West Park [New Castle County].
- Florida
  - Alachua County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of West Park [Alachua County].
  - Broward County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of West Park [Broward County].
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of West Park [Hillsborough County].
- New York
  - Ulster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of West Park [Ulster County].
- Ohio
  - Cuyahoga 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 Ohio community of West Park [Cuyahoga County].
  - Hancock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Park [Hancock County].
  - Jefferson County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Park [Jefferson County].
  - Stark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Park [Stark County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of West Park.
- Texas
  - Harris 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 West Park [Harris County].
- Virginia
  - Roanoke City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of West Park [Roanoke City].
- Washington
  - Kitsap County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of West Park [Kitsap 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.

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 Park 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.