Do you know of Maxon ???

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

Our sources for Maxon (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 Maxon other than they indicate that Maxon would be found somewhere in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1889 and closed  in 1907.

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 Maxon ...

We found four communities that share the name Maxon.

Within Wyoming, the name Maxon is unique.

Beyond Wyoming, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Iowa
    • Monroe County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Maxon [Monroe County].
  • Kentucky
    • McCracken County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Maxon [McCracken County].
  • New Mexico
    • Otero County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Maxon [Otero County].
  • Texas
    • Brewster County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Maxon [Brewster County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Maxon ...

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

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

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

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

Map from 1900 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater County.