Do you know of West Butte ???

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

Our sources for West Butte (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 West Butte other than they indicate that West Butte would be found somewhere in Sutter County, California.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1863 and closed  in 1930.

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 Butte ...

We found one communities that share the name West Butte.

There is one other community in California which is also named West Butte.

Beyond California.

• Communities Located In California ...
  • Colusa County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of West Butte [Colusa County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Butte ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for West Butte.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 06/84130   (Place Name: West Butte)

County: Sutter     (FIPS State/County: 06/101)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, West Butte) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Sutter 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 Sutter County.