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

Our sources wasn't clear whether Lincoln Junction was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Lincoln Junction would be found somewhere in Bonneville County, Idaho.

Communities Also Named Lincoln Junction ...

We found one communities that share the name Lincoln Junction.

Within Idaho, the name Lincoln Junction is unique.

Beyond Idaho, there is another community also named Lincoln Junction in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Iosco County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lincoln Junction [Iosco County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lincoln Junction ...

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

North American Railroad Atlas - Mountain Plains
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2000
(Available from Amazon.com)

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad

The FIPS database contains an entry for Lincoln Junction.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 16/47170   (Place Name: Lincoln Junction)

County: Bonneville     (FIPS State/County: 16/019)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Lincoln Junction) 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  Bonneville 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 Bonneville County.

AntelopeIndian
  
BachNew Sweden
  
Eagle RockSaint Leon
 Skyline
Hackman 
HillviewTaylor
  

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.









 

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