Do you know of Woodruff ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Woodruff. 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 Woodruff.
Our sources for Woodruff (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Woodruff other than they indicate that Woodruff would be found somewhere in Apache County, Arizona.
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 Woodruff ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Woodruff.
There is one other community in Arizona which is also named Woodruff.
Beyond Arizona, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Arizona ...
- Navajo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Woodruff [Navajo County].
- Navajo County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Calhoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Woodruff [Calhoun County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Idaho
- Oneida County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Woodruff [Oneida County].
- Illinois
- Cook 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 Illinois community of Woodruff [Cook County].
- McLean County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Woodruff [McLean County].
- Indiana
- LaGrange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Woodruff [LaGrange County].
- Kansas
- Phillips County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Woodruff [Phillips County].
- Missouri
- Platte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Woodruff [Platte County].
- New Jersey
- North Dakota
- Pennsylvania
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Woodruff [Greene County].
- South Carolina
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Woodruff [Spartanburg County].
- Utah
- Rich County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Woodruff [Rich County].
- Vermont
- Washington
- Snohomish County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Woodruff [Snohomish County].
- West Virginia
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Woodruff [Marshall County].
- Wisconsin
- Oneida County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Woodruff [Oneida County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Woodruff ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Woodruff:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Woodruff - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Apache 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 Apache County.
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Woodruff 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. |