Do you know of Wayside ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wayside. 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 Wayside.
We found mention of Wayside as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Spokane 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 1892 and closed in 1904.
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 Wayside ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Wayside.
Within Washington, the name Wayside is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Hot Spring County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Wayside [Hot Spring County].
- Georgia
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Wayside [Jones County].
- Kansas
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Wayside [Montgomery County].
- Rice 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 Kansas community of Wayside [Rice County].
- Kentucky
- Anderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wayside [Anderson County].
- Spencer 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 Kentucky community of Wayside [Spencer County].
- Louisiana
- West Feliciana Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Wayside [West Feliciana Parish].
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Wayside [Plymouth County].
- Mississippi
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Wayside [Washington County].
- Nebraska
- New Jersey
- Monmouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Wayside [Monmouth County].
- North Carolina
- Hoke 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 Carolina community of Wayside [Hoke County].
- Swain 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 North Carolina community of Wayside [Swain County].
- Oklahoma
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Wayside [Washington County].
- Ontario
- Tennessee
- Rutherford 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 Tennessee community of Wayside [Rutherford County].
- Warren 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 Tennessee community of Wayside [Warren County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Charles City County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wayside [Charles City County].
- Pittsylvania 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 Virginia community of Wayside [Pittsylvania County].
- West Virginia
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Wayside [Monroe County].
- Wisconsin
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Wayside [Brown County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wayside ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wayside:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
The FIPS database contains an entry for Wayside.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 53/76790 (Place Name: Wayside)
County: Spokane (FIPS State/County: 53/063)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Wayside) 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 Spokane 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 Spokane County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Wayside 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |