Do you know of Dyer ???

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

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

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 Dyer ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Dyer.

Within Texas, the name Dyer is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Dyer [Crawford County].
- California
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Dyer [Orange County].
- Colorado
  - El Paso 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 Colorado community of Dyer [El Paso County].
- Florida
  - Palm Beach 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 Florida community of Dyer [Palm Beach County].
- Indiana
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Dyer [Lake County].
- Kentucky
  - Breckinridge County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Dyer [Breckinridge County].
- Louisiana
  - Rapides Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of Dyer [Rapides Parish].
- Michigan
  - Cass 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 Dyer [Cass County].
- Nebraska
  - Rock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Dyer [Rock County].
- Nevada
  - Esmeralda County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Dyer [Esmeralda County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Dyer.
- Tennessee
  - Gibson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Dyer [Gibson County].
- Washington
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Dyer [Douglas County].
- West Virginia
  - Webster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Dyer [Webster County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dyer ...

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

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Texas
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in Fort Bend 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 Fort Bend County.

Big Creek
	Sartartia
Hanson	Smithers Lake
House	Sugarland Junction

The Meadows	Valley Lodge

Pillot	Walker
Pryor	Whites
	Wimberly
Randon

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 Dyer 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.