Do you know of West Derby ???

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

Our sources for West Derby (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 West Derby other than they indicate that West Derby would be found somewhere in Orleans County, Vermont.

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 West Derby ...

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

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

Rand McNally Map of Vermont (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for West Derby.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 50/79600   (Place Name: West Derby)

County: Orleans     (FIPS State/County: 50/019)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- West Derby) 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  Orleans 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 Orleans County.