Do you know of Sedalia ???

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

Our sources for Sedalia (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Sedalia other than they indicate that Sedalia would be found somewhere in Lincoln County, Washington.

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 Sedalia ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Sedalia.

Within Washington, the name Sedalia is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Sedalia.
- Arkansas
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sedalia [Benton County].
- Colorado
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Sedalia [Douglas County].
- Indiana
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Sedalia [Clinton County].
- Kentucky
  - Graves County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Sedalia [Graves County].
- Missouri
  - Pettis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sedalia [Pettis County].
- North Carolina
  - Guilford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sedalia [Guilford County].
- North Dakota
  - Morton 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 North Dakota community of Sedalia [Morton County].
- Ohio
  - Madison 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 Sedalia [Madison County].
- South Carolina
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Sedalia [Union County].
- Texas
  - Collin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sedalia [Collin County].
- Virginia
  - Bedford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Sedalia [Bedford County].
- West Virginia
  - Doddridge County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Sedalia [Doddridge County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sedalia ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County.

Crab Creek	Kline
Crescent
	Larene
Denny's	Layton
	Lemars
Egypt
Eleanor	Minnie Falls

Fairview	Parrott
Fellows
Fry	Rockdale

Grand Coulee	Sassin
Gravilles
	Wells
Kelly	Wheatdale

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Sedalia 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.