Do you know of Woodburn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Woodburn. 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 Woodburn.<1>
Our sources for Woodburn (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 Woodburn other than they indicate that Woodburn would be found somewhere in Oceana County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1880 and closed in 1899.
Communities Also Named Woodburn ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Woodburn.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Woodburn.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Macoupin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Woodburn [Macoupin County].
- Indiana
- Allen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Woodburn [Allen County].
- Iowa
- Clarke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Woodburn [Clarke County].
- Kentucky
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Woodburn [Warren County].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Woodburn [Montgomery County].
- Mississippi
- Nebraska
- Platte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Woodburn [Platte County].
- North Carolina
- Brunswick County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Woodburn [Brunswick County].
- Person County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Woodburn [Person County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Woodburn.
- Ohio
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Woodburn [Hamilton County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Woodburn.
- Oregon
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Woodburn [Marion County].
- Pennsylvania
- Susquehanna County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Woodburn [Susquehanna County].
- South Carolina
- Oconee County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Woodburn [Oconee County].
- Tennessee
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Woodburn [Union County].
- Virginia
- Loudoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Woodburn [Loudoun County].
- West Virginia
- Monongalia County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Woodburn [Monongalia County].
- Illinois
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Woodburn ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Woodburn:
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 Woodburn - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Oceana 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 Oceana 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 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 Woodburn 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/ |