RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Kansas >> Jefferson County >> Williamstown >> MentionsIndex...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
Kansas


The Commemorative Quarter for Kansas







Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Williamstown came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Williamstown 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 Williamstown. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: When we started collecting data about Williamstown, we were inconsistent about keeping track of where that data came from. As a result, this list of references and mentions is probably incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Williamstown:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station, an Express Office

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Williamstown 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 Williamstown. See our Misc Page for Williamstown for more information.


Railroad Mentions of Williamstown:

Williamstown was mentioned in the following schedules:

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939)

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)

Footnotes ...

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

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