Do you know of Wadsworth ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wadsworth. 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 Wadsworth.
Our sources for Wadsworth (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 Wadsworth other than they indicate that Wadsworth would be found somewhere in Lewis County, Kentucky.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1902 and closed in 1905.
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 Wadsworth ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Wadsworth.
Within Kentucky, the name Wadsworth is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Autauga County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Wadsworth [Autauga County].
- Illinois
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Wadsworth [Lake County].
- Kansas
- Ellis 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 Wadsworth [Ellis County].
- Leavenworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Wadsworth [Leavenworth County].
- Massachusetts
- Norfolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Wadsworth [Norfolk County].
- Michigan
- Nevada
- Washoe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Wadsworth [Washoe County].
- New York
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Wadsworth [Livingston County].
- Ohio
- Medina County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wadsworth [Medina County].
- Pennsylvania
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wadsworth [Butler County].
- Philadelphia 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 Pennsylvania community of Wadsworth [Philadelphia County].
- South Carolina
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Wadsworth [Spartanburg County].
- Texas
- Matagorda County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wadsworth [Matagorda County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wadsworth ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wadsworth:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Rand McNally Map of Kentucky (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Lewis 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 Lewis County.
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 Wadsworth 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/ |