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Do you know of Windom ???

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

Our sources for Windom (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Windom other than they indicate that Windom would be found somewhere in Saint Louis County, Missouri.

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 Windom ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Windom.

Within Missouri, the name Windom is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Martin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Windom [Martin County].
    • Kansas
      • McPherson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Windom [McPherson County].
    • Michigan
      • Lenawee 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 Michigan community of Windom [Lenawee County].
    • Minnesota
      • Cottonwood County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Windom [Cottonwood County].
    • New York
      • Erie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Windom [Erie County].
    • North Carolina
      • Yancey County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Windom [Yancey County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Payne 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 Oklahoma community of Windom [Payne County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lancaster County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Windom [Lancaster County].
    • Texas
      • Fannin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Windom [Fannin County].
    • Washington
      • Lewis 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 Washington community of Windom [Lewis County].
    • West Virginia
      • Mineral County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Windom [Mineral County].
      • Wyoming County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Windom [Wyoming County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Windom ...

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

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

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

Map from 1904 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Saint Louis 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 Saint Louis County.

AldernayLuxemburg
Algonquin 
AlphaMaddox
AnglumMaes
ArloeMargona Village
AthertonMarvin Terrace
 Mentor
BarracksMeramec Highlands
Barrett's StationMeramec
BartoldMiller
BellafontaineMincke
Ben AvisMokeville
BillmanMuirfield
BissellMutual
Blackjack 
BobringNorth County
Bon HommeNursery
Bonfils Station 
BrookdaleO'Fallon Park
Burke CityOak Hill
Bussen SpurOak Ridge
 Oakhill Junction
Carondelet ParkOld Orchard
CarrOrchard Lakes
Castello 
Centaur StationPalisades
CentretonPrice
CollopyPrincipia
Colman 
ConclayReber Place
 Robinwood East
DeickeRobinwood West
DrakeRosa
DrewRose Hill
DwyerRuegg
  
East KirkwoodSaint Albans
EdenSaint Ferdinand
EdgebrookSaint Johns Station
Elmdale VillageSaint Paul
Elmwood ParkSeven Pines
 Shadyside
FairviewSkillman
FanitaSkinker Road
Fee FeeSouth Saint Louis
Forest CitySouth Side
Forest ParkSpring Park
Forsythe JunctionStratmann
 Sunland Hills
GardenviewSutter
GardnerSuttons
Glen Echo 
GrahamTara
Grand CanyonTempo
GrantTesson
Grasso 
 University Park
Heights 
Heman ParkValley Forge
Hill CrestVelda
HillsideVillage of Charlack
Howard'sVon Schraders
Huntley 
HydraulicWebster Park
 Webster
InglesydeWedgewood Green
IrvingWedgewood
 Wells
JedburgWest County
 West Saint Louis
KelpeWhispering Hills
King'sWilkinson
KobermanWoodbine Heights
 Woodland
LacklandWoodridge
Laclede Junction 

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Windom 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.









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024