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Do you know of Wrightstown ???

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

Our sources for Wrightstown (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 Wrightstown other than they indicate that Wrightstown would be found somewhere in Pima County, Arizona.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1914 and closed  in 1921.

Communities Also Named Wrightstown ...

We found five communities that share the name Wrightstown.

Within Arizona, the name Wrightstown is unique.

Beyond Arizona, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Minnesota
      • Otter Tail County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Wrightstown [Otter Tail County].
    • New Jersey
      • Burlington County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Wrightstown [Burlington County].
    • Ohio
      • Morgan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wrightstown [Morgan County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bucks County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wrightstown [Bucks County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Brown County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Wrightstown [Brown County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wrightstown ...

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

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

Shell Oil Road Map for Arizona (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

More Orphans in  Pima 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 Pima County.

AldonaManana Grande
 Marsh
Benson HighwayMescal
Big FieldsMission
Brookline 
 Northern Hills
Cababi 
Cloud Ridge TerraceOld Sopori School
Coronado 
Covered WellsPetrie
Coyote FieldPlata
CrittendenPortolita
 Posa Buena
Desert Dells 
Desert SteppesRiverside Terrace
 Rocky Point Junction
Elgin 
 Sabino
Flecha Caida EstatesSan Serafin
Fort LowellSanford's
Fresnal CanyonSasabi Flat
Fresnal VillageSherwood Village
 Speedway
GrancenSun
Gu AchiSupi Oidak
  
Havana NakyaTatria Toak
HuachucaTusconita
Huntington Park 
 Valencia West
Kendall SquareVista Catalina
KerwoVista Del Sahuaro
Kinsley Ranch 
KomelikWakefield
 Warwick Village
La OsaWashington
Lincon 
Little TucsonYaqui Indian Village
 Yaqui

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>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 Wrightstown 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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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