Do you know of Big Woods ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Big Woods. 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 Big Woods.<1>

We found mention of Big Woods as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wright County, Minnesota.

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.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1867 and closed in 1870.

Communities Also Named Big Woods ...

We found five communities that share the name Big Woods.

There is one other community in Minnesota which is also named Big Woods.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Minnesota ...
- Marshall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Big Woods [Marshall County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - DuPage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Big Woods [DuPage County].
- Kentucky
  - Menifee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Big Woods [Menifee County].
- Louisiana
  - Calcasieu Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Big Woods [Calcasieu Parish].
- Maryland
  - Harford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Big Woods [Harford County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Big Woods ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Wright 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 Wright County.

Albion
	Lilly Pond
Chatham	Ludemann
Cochran's Mills
	Middleville
Dean Lake
	Rockford Station
Granite Lake
	Saint Michael's Station
Hasty Station
Howard	Victor

Keystone	Waverly Mills
Kjellberg Park

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>	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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/