Do you know of Windy ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Windy. 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 Windy.<1>

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

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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1924 and closed in 1934.

Communities Also Named Windy ...

We found four communities that share the name Windy.

Within Alaska, the name Windy is unique.

Beyond Alaska, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Windy.
- Kentucky
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Windy [Wayne County].
- Virginia
  - Amherst County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Windy [Amherst County].
- West Virginia
  - Wirt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Windy [Wirt County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Windy ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Windy.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 02/85500 (Place Name: Windy)

County: Yukon-Koyukuk (CA) (FIPS State/County: 02/290)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Windy) 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).

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/