Do you know of Wilbur ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wilbur. 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 Wilbur.<1>
We found mention of Wilbur as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fremont County, Colorado.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1894 and closed in 1913.
Communities Also Named Wilbur ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name Wilbur.
Within Colorado, the name Wilbur is unique.
Beyond Colorado, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Wilbur [Morgan County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wilbur [Lawrence County].
- Missouri
- Pemiscot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wilbur [Pemiscot County].
- New York
- Ulster County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Wilbur [Ulster County].
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Wilbur [Douglas County].
- Umatilla County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Wilbur [Umatilla County].
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Carter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Wilbur [Carter County].
- Washington
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Wilbur [Lincoln County].
- West Virginia
- Logan County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Wilbur [Logan County].
- Tyler County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Wilbur [Tyler County].
- Indiana
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wilbur ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wilbur:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
More Orphans in Fremont 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 Fremont County.
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> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Wilbur 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |