Do you know of Washburn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Washburn. 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 Washburn.
Our sources for Washburn (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 Washburn other than they indicate that Washburn would be found somewhere in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1903.
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 Washburn ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Washburn.
Within Minnesota, the name Washburn is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, 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 one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Sebastian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Washburn [Sebastian County].
- Colorado
- Illinois
- Woodford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Washburn [Woodford County].
- Iowa
- Black Hawk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Washburn [Black Hawk County].
- Kansas
- Bourbon 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 Washburn [Bourbon County].
- Wichita County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Washburn [Wichita County].
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Washburn [Aroostook County].
- Missouri
- Barry County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Washburn [Barry County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- McLean County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Washburn [McLean County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Washburn.
- Tennessee
- Grainger County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Washburn [Grainger County].
- Texas
- Armstrong County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Washburn [Armstrong County].
- West Virginia
- Ritchie County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Washburn [Ritchie County].
- Wisconsin
- Bayfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Washburn [Bayfield County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Washburn ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Washburn:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Washburn - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Hennepin 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 Hennepin 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Washburn 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/ |