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.

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 Sunflower County, Mississippi.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1881 and closed  in 1908.

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 Woodburn ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Woodburn.

Within Mississippi, the name Woodburn is unique.

Beyond Mississippi, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

• 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].
  • Michigan
    • Mason 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 Woodburn [Mason County].
    • Oceana 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 Michigan community of Woodburn [Oceana County].
  • 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.<1> 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].

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.<2>

Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Woodburn.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 28/80960   (Place Name: Woodburn)

County: Sunflower     (FIPS State/County: 28/133)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Woodburn) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Sunflower 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 Sunflower County.