Do you know of Westmoreland ???

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

Our sources for Westmoreland (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 Westmoreland other than they indicate that Westmoreland would be found somewhere in Limestone County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1908.

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 Westmoreland ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name Westmoreland.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Westmoreland.

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

Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Lauderdale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Westmoreland [Lauderdale County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Idaho
  - Ada 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 Idaho community of Westmoreland [Ada County].
- Illinois
  - Winnebago County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Westmoreland [Winnebago County].
- Kansas
  - Pottawatomie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Westmoreland [Pottawatomie County].
- Kentucky
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Westmoreland [Fayette County].
- New Hampshire
  - Cheshire County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Westmoreland [Cheshire County].
- New York
  - Oneida County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Westmoreland [Oneida County].
  - Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Westmoreland [Suffolk County].
- North Carolina
  - Mecklenburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Westmoreland [Mecklenburg County].
  - Wilson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Westmoreland [Wilson County].
- Oregon
  - Multnomah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Westmoreland [Multnomah County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Philadelphia 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 Westmoreland [Philadelphia County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Westmoreland.
- Tennessee
  - Sumner County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Westmoreland [Sumner County].
- Virginia
  - Albemarle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Westmoreland [Albemarle County].
  - Westmoreland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Westmoreland [Westmoreland County].
- West Virginia
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Westmoreland [Wayne County].
- Wisconsin
  - Dane 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 Wisconsin community of Westmoreland [Dane County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Westmoreland ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Westmoreland.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 01/81456 (Place Name: Westmoreland)

County: Limestone (FIPS State/County: 01/083)

Class: X3

More Orphans in Limestone 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 Limestone County.

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 Westmoreland 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.

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

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