Do you know of West Farm ???

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

Our sources for West Farm (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 West Farm other than they indicate that West Farm would be found somewhere in Madison County, Florida.

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 Farm ...

We found two communities that share the name West Farm.

Within Florida, the name West Farm is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Colorado
    • Prowers County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of West Farm [Prowers County].
  • Delaware
    • New Castle County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of West Farm [New Castle County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Farm ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for West Farm - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for West Farm.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 12/76200   (Place Name: West Farm)

County: Madison     (FIPS State/County: 12/079)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, West Farm) 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  Madison 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 Madison County.