Do you know of Wallbaum ???

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

Our sources for Wallbaum (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 Wallbaum other than they indicate that Wallbaum would be found somewhere in Henderson County, Illinois.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 and closed in 1894.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wallbaum ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in Henderson 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 Henderson County.

Bedfordville	Illinois Junction
Briggsville
	Oquawaka Junction
Carthage Junction
	Reed
Grove Farm
	Sageland
Honey Creek	Sagetown
Hopper's Mills	South Henderson

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>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/