Do you know of Willimantic ???

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

Our sources for Willimantic (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 Willimantic other than they indicate that Willimantic would be found somewhere in Winneshiek County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1856 and closed  in 1863.

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 Willimantic ...

We found two communities that share the name Willimantic.

Within Iowa, the name Willimantic is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Connecticut
    • Windham County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Willimantic [Windham County].
  • Maine
    • Piscataquis County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Willimantic [Piscataquis County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Willimantic ...

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

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

Article: Index to Abandoned Towns of Iowa
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.

Iowa State Gazetteers
Written by: Hair, James T.
Published by Bailey & Hair
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Winneshiek 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 Winneshiek County.