Do you know of West Union ???

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

We found mention of West Union as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Knox County, Indiana.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1829 and closed in 1855.

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 Union ...

We found 23 communities that share the name West Union.

There is one other community in Indiana which is also named West Union.

Beyond Indiana, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Indiana ...
- Parke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of West Union [Parke County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of West Union [Clark County].
- Iowa
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of West Union [Fayette County].
  - Tama County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of West Union [Tama County].
- Kansas
  - Norton 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 Kansas community of West Union [Norton County].
  - Phillips County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of West Union [Phillips County].
  - Washington County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of West Union [Washington County].
- Minnesota
  - Carver County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of West Union [Carver County].
  - Todd County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of West Union [Todd County].
- Mississippi
  - Union 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 Mississippi community of West Union [Union County].
- Missouri
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of West Union [Cass County].
- Nebraska
  - Custer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of West Union [Custer County].
- New York
  - Steuben County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of West Union [Steuben County].
- Ohio
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Union [Adams County].
  - Hancock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Union [Hancock County].
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Union [Monroe County].
- Oregon
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of West Union [Washington County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of West Union [Greene County].
- South Carolina
  - Oconee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of West Union [Oconee County].
- Tennessee
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of West Union [Shelby County].
  - Weakley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of West Union [Weakley County].
- West Virginia
  - Doddridge County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of West Union [Doddridge County].
  - Pocahontas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of West Union [Pocahontas County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Union ...

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

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

More Orphans in Knox 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 Knox County.

Alice
	Pondcreek
Bernard
Berrysville	Red Cloud
Bunker Hill
	Seven Mile
Cypress	Smith
	South Vincennes
Gravel Pit	Spaldingville

Lovely Dale	Union Depot

Maria Creek	Willis Grove

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 West Union 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.

<2>

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

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