Do you know of Wake ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wake. 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 Wake.
Our sources for Wake (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 Wake other than they indicate that Wake would be found somewhere in Wake County, North Carolina.
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 Wake ...
We found three communities that share the name Wake.
Within North Carolina, the name Wake is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Baxter County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Wake [Baxter County].
- Texas
- Crosby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wake [Crosby County].
- Virginia
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wake [Middlesex County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wake ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wake:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Wake - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Wake County ...
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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 Wake County.