Do you know of West Side ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of West Side, so we are uncertain whether West Side is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that West Side would be found somewhere in Jefferson County, Alabama.

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 West Side ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name West Side.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named West Side.

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

Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Montgomery 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 Alabama community of West Side [Montgomery County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
  - New London 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 Connecticut community of West Side [New London County].
- Indiana
  - Marion 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 Indiana community of West Side [Marion County].
- Louisiana
  - Vernon Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of West Side [Vernon Parish].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of West Side.
- Ohio
  - Cuyahoga 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 West Side [Cuyahoga County].
  - Hamilton 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 Ohio community of West Side [Hamilton County].
  - Mahoning County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Side [Mahoning County].
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Side [Montgomery County].
- Oregon
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of West Side [Lake County].
  - Lane 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 Oregon community of West Side [Lane County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Luzerne 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 Pennsylvania community of West Side [Luzerne County].
  - Westmoreland 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 Pennsylvania community of West Side [Westmoreland County].
- Texas
  - Jefferson 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 Texas community of West Side [Jefferson County].
- Washington
  - Yakima 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 Washington community of West Side [Yakima County].
- West Virginia
  - Kanawha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of West Side [Kanawha County].

More Orphans in Jefferson County ...

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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 Jefferson County.

Alabama Rolling Mill
Alfretta	Mabel
Alice	Maben
Altadena Valley	Magella
Amity	Maury
Argo Station	McAddry
	McWilliams
Baugh's	Merkel
Baylor	Miles
Beachwood Park	Mims
Belle Sumter	Morrowville
Bellwood	Morton
Ben Vines Gap	Mounds
Bessie Mines	Mount Pinson
Birminghamport	Mountain Woods
Birwat	Murray
Biven
Boyles	Norrell Junction
Brake
Brock's	Oregon
Brunnet Heights
Bryan Station	Palmer
Burstall	Partridge
	Passcut
Camp Oliver	Passing Track
Catocin	Pawnee
Coal Creek	Pierce
Cohort	Pinson - Clay - Chalkville
Connellsville Mines	Pinson Valley
Crestline	Pratt Crossing
Crockett Junction
Cymbling Branch	Quinton

Dago	Razburgh
Dahinda	Readers
DeBerniere	Red Gap Junction
Divide	Red Ore
Dixiana	Redding
Dolcito	Regent Forest
	Rockville
Earnest	Roosevelt City
Elliott	Rugby Highlands
Ensley Furnace	Rutledge Heights
Ensley Heights	Rutledge

Fairview	Sargon
Five Points West	Sayre Mines
	Scrap
Garden Highlands	Shade's Creek
Gary	Shaw
Gelowe	Sherman
Gilreath	Slope Four
Grace	South Yard
Graces	Sparks Gap
Granlin	Staryeacre Ford
Green Springs	Stephens
Green Valley
Greene	Tennessee Farms
Greene's	Thomas Junction
Greens	Toad Vine
Gurley's Creek	Truss
	Turpin
Hedona
Henryellen	Uptown
Huff
Hughe's Siding	Vesthaven
Huron	Vinesville

Interburan Heights	Waddell
Irondale Junction	Watt's
	West Birmingham
Jefferson	Wheeler
Jonesborough	Wheeling
	Who'd A Thought It
Kawanee	Wilgus
	Woodlawn Junction
Leeds Mineral Well	Woodward Red Ore
Lindbergh	Wymond
Little Warrior
Lynn Crossing	Yuma

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 West Side 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.