Do you know of Wood ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wood. 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 Wood.
Our sources for Wood (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 Wood other than they indicate that Wood would be found somewhere in Winston County, Alabama.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1909 and closed in 1914.
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 Wood ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Wood.
Within Alabama, the name Wood is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 25 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Payette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Wood [Payette County].
- Iowa
- Clayton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Wood [Clayton County].
- Louisiana
- Natchitoches Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Wood [Natchitoches Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Wood.
- Michigan
- Branch 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 Michigan community of Wood [Branch County].
- Lenawee 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 Michigan community of Wood [Lenawee County].
- Missouri
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wood [DeKalb County].
- Nevada
- Elko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Wood [Elko County].
- North Carolina
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Wood [Franklin County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Wood.
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Mellette County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Wood [Mellette County].
- Tennessee
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Wood [Monroe County].
- Texas
- Hidalgo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wood [Hidalgo County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Wood [Salt Lake County].
- Virginia
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wood [Scott County].
- West Virginia
- Fayette 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 West Virginia community of Wood [Fayette County].
- Mason County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Wood [Mason County].
- Randolph 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 West Virginia community of Wood [Randolph County].
- Wisconsin
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wood ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wood:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Alabama (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Winston 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 Winston County.
| Amos | Magic |
| Ark | Mellville |
| Melville | |
| Bear Creek | Motes |
| Biler | |
| Brown's Creek | Nathan |
| Davis | Owl |
| Deer | |
| Dismal | Peaks Mill |
| Elk | Tavern |
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 Wood 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/ |