Do you know of Woodbridge ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1846 and closed in 1887.

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 Woodbridge ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Woodbridge.

Within Iowa, the name Woodbridge is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, 21 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - San Joaquin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Woodbridge [San Joaquin County].
- Connecticut
  - New Haven County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Woodbridge [New Haven County].
- Florida
  - Orange County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Woodbridge [Orange County].
- Georgia
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Woodbridge [Columbia County].
  - Dougherty County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Woodbridge [Dougherty County].
  - Hall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Woodbridge [Hall County].
- Louisiana
  - Tangipahoa Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Woodbridge [Tangipahoa Parish].
- Maryland
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Woodbridge [Carroll County].
- New Jersey
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Woodbridge [Middlesex County].
- North Carolina
  - Cleveland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Woodbridge [Cleveland County].
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Woodbridge [Cumberland County].
  - Forsyth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Woodbridge [Forsyth County].
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Woodbridge [Lee County].
  - Mecklenburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Woodbridge [Mecklenburg County].
- North Dakota
  - Cavalier County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Woodbridge [Cavalier County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Woodbridge.
- South Carolina
  - Anderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Woodbridge [Anderson County].
  - Berkeley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Woodbridge [Berkeley County].
  - Darlington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Woodbridge [Darlington County].
  - York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Woodbridge [York County].
- Virginia
  - Prince William County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Woodbridge [Prince William County].
  - Salem City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Woodbridge [Salem City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Woodbridge ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Cedar 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 Cedar County.

Durant
	Walden
Junction	Williamstown

Shiloh	Yankee Grove

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Woodbridge 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/