Do you know of Warsaw ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Warsaw. 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 Warsaw.
We found mention of Warsaw as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Franklin Parish, Louisiana.
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 1852 and closed in 1886.
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 Warsaw ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Warsaw.
Within Louisiana, the name Warsaw is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Sumter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Warsaw [Sumter County].
- Arkansas
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Warsaw [Pulaski County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Warsaw [Hancock County].
- Indiana
- Kosciusko County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Warsaw [Kosciusko County].
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Warsaw [Gallatin County].
- Michigan
- Macomb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Warsaw [Macomb County].
- Minnesota
- Rice County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Warsaw [Rice County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Warsaw [Benton County].
- New York
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Warsaw [Wyoming County].
- North Carolina
- Duplin County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Warsaw [Duplin County].
- North Dakota
- Walsh County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Warsaw [Walsh County].
- Ohio
- Coshocton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Warsaw [Coshocton County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Warsaw.
- Pennsylvania
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Warsaw [Jefferson County].
- Lackawanna County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Warsaw [Lackawanna County].
- Luzerne 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 Warsaw [Luzerne County].
- South Carolina
- Williamsburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Warsaw [Williamsburg County].
- Texas
- Kaufman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Warsaw [Kaufman County].
- Virginia
- Richmond County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Warsaw [Richmond County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Warsaw ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Warsaw:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Franklin Parish ...
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 Franklin Parish.
| Betty | Hurricane |
| Bryan City | |
| Butler | Kendricks Ferry |
| Dunham | Louisville |
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 Warsaw 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 parish. 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/ |