Do you know of Nye ???

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

Our sources for Nye (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 Nye other than they indicate that Nye would be found somewhere in Park County, Montana.

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 Nye ...

We found nine communities that share the name Nye.

There is one other community in Montana which is also named Nye.

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

Communities Located In Montana ...
- Stillwater County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Nye [Stillwater County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
  - Marshall 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 Indiana community of Nye [Marshall County].
- Kansas
  - Meade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Nye [Meade County].
- North Carolina
  - Alamance 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 Nye [Alamance County].
- Oregon
  - Linn County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Nye [Linn County].
  - Umatilla County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Nye [Umatilla County].
- Texas
  - Webb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Nye [Webb County].
- West Virginia
  - Putnam County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Nye [Putnam County].
- Wisconsin
  - Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Nye [Polk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Nye ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Park 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 Park County.

Allens Spur
	Mission
Cinnabar
Cleora	Reedpoint
Cokedale
	Sweet Grass
Dilworth
Downer	Trail Creek

Fridley	Vaters

Hall	Wan-i-gan
Horr

Footnotes ...

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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 Nye 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.