Do you know of Wyoming ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wyoming. 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 Wyoming.<1>
Our sources for Wyoming (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 Wyoming other than they indicate that Wyoming would be found somewhere in Marshall County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1862 and closed in 1901.
Communities Also Named Wyoming ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Wyoming.
There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Wyoming.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Wyoming [Kent County].
- Illinois
- Stark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Wyoming [Stark County].
- Iowa
- Jones County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Wyoming [Jones County].
- Kentucky
- Bath County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wyoming [Bath County].
- Massachusetts
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Wyoming [Middlesex County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Chisago County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Wyoming [Chisago County].
- Missouri
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wyoming [Cass County].
- Nebraska
- Otoe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Wyoming [Otoe County].
- New Jersey
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Wyoming [Essex County].
- New York
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Wyoming [Wyoming County].
- Ohio
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wyoming [Hamilton County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Wyoming.
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Wyoming [Washington County].
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Iowa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Wyoming [Iowa County].
- Delaware
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wyoming ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wyoming:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Wyoming - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Marshall 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 Marshall County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Wyoming 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |