Do you know of West Northfield ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about West Northfield. 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 West Northfield.
Our sources for West Northfield (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 West Northfield other than they indicate that West Northfield would be found somewhere in Cook County, Illinois.
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 West Northfield ...
We found two communities that share the name West Northfield.
Within Illinois, the name West Northfield is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Massachusetts
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of West Northfield [Franklin County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of West Northfield.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Northfield ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about West Northfield:
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Cook 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 Cook County.