Do you know of West Cambridge ???

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

Our sources for West Cambridge (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 West Cambridge other than they indicate that West Cambridge would be found somewhere in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

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 West Cambridge ...

We found one communities that share the name West Cambridge.

Within Massachusetts, the name West Cambridge is unique.

Beyond Massachusetts, there is another community also named West Cambridge in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New York
    • Washington County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of West Cambridge [Washington County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Cambridge ...

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

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

The FIPS database contains an entry for West Cambridge.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 25/75470   (Place Name: West Cambridge)

County: Middlesex     (FIPS State/County: 25/017)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- West Cambridge) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Middlesex 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 Middlesex County.