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Do you know of Fraser ???

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

Our sources for Fraser (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 Fraser other than they indicate that Fraser would be found somewhere in Shoshone County, Idaho.

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 Fraser ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Fraser.

There is one other community in Idaho which is also named Fraser.

Beyond Idaho, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, eight are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Idaho ...
    • Clearwater County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Fraser [Clearwater County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Fraser.
    • Colorado
      • Grand County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Fraser [Grand County].
    • Illinois
      • Macon 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 Illinois community of Fraser [Macon County].
    • Iowa
      • Boone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Fraser [Boone County].
    • Michigan
      • Macomb County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Fraser [Macomb County].
    • Nebraska
      • Phelps 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 Nebraska community of Fraser [Phelps County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Fraser.
    • New York
      • Delaware County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fraser [Delaware County].
      • Livingston County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fraser [Livingston County].
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Fraser.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fraser ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fraser - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Shoshone 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 Shoshone County.

AtlantisMorning
  
Black CloudPierce City
 Polaris
Gibson City 
Golconda MillSampling Works
GraniteShont
 Sierra Nevada Mine
Kellogg - WardnerSilver King
 Sunnyside
Lolo 
LookoutWardner Junction
 Weippe
McAuley 

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Fraser 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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