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Do you know of Snake River ???

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

We found mention of Snake River as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Franklin County, Washington.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1910 and closed  in 1963.

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 Snake River ...

We found two communities that share the name Snake River.

Within Washington, the name Snake River is unique.

Beyond Washington, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Snake River.
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Snake River.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Snake River ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Snake River.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 53/65065   (Place Name: Snake River)

County: Franklin     (FIPS State/County: 53/021)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Snake River) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Franklin 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 Franklin County.

Burr CanyonMesa Pit
  
East PascoRingold
  
LakeSagehill
 Snake River Junction

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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