Do you know of West Darien ???

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

We found mention of West Darien as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

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 1872 and closed in 1875.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Darien ...

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

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

More Orphans in Fairfield 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 Fairfield County.

Agua Vista	Milbrook
	Mill River
Barnum	Monroe Center
Bayport	Monroe Station
Belden
Bell Island	Newtown Station
Berkshire Junction	Newtown
Brookfield Junction	Noble
Bruce Park	Norfield
Brush Island	Noroton Station
	North Sherman
Candlewood Hill
Candlewood Isle	Old Well
Cannon Station	Oronque
Cannon
Chickahominy	Paradise Green
Cold Spring	Putney Heights
Compo Beach
Compo Hill	Redding Center
Cooper	Redding Station
	Ridgefield Center
Darien Depot	Round Hill
Deer Run Shores
Dorlons Point	Samp Mortar
	Sandy Hook Station
Easton Center	Sanford
Elmwood	Sound Beach
	Sport Hill
Five Mile River	Stepney Depot
Flax Hill	Stepney Station
	Stevenson Station
Gallows Hill	Stratfield - Brooklawn
Glen
Grasmere	Taconic
Grassy Plain
Great Meadows	Wailacks Point
	West Stratford
Hillside	Westport Station
	Whipstick
Indian Harbor	Whisconier
	Wilson Point
Limestone
Little Boston	Zoar

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>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/