Do you know of Goodwater ???

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

Our sources for Goodwater (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 Goodwater other than they indicate that Goodwater would be found somewhere in Gove County, Kansas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1904.

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 Goodwater ...

We found seven communities that share the name Goodwater.

Within Kansas, the name Goodwater is unique.

Beyond Kansas, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Coosa County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Goodwater [Coosa County].
  • Arizona
    • Navajo County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Goodwater [Navajo County].
  • Florida
    • Hillsborough County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Goodwater [Hillsborough County].
  • Kentucky
    • Pulaski County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Goodwater [Pulaski County].
  • Mississippi
    • Clarke County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Goodwater [Clarke County].
  • Oklahoma
    • McCurtain County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Goodwater [McCurtain County].
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Goodwater.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Goodwater ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Gove 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 Gove County.