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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Woodford came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Woodford in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Woodford. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Woodford data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

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

Woodford was listed as Woodford Courthouse.

Rand McNally Map (1881)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Woodford is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Woodford. See our Misc Page for Woodford for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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