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Do you know of Wagner ???

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

Our sources for Wagner (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 Wagner other than they indicate that Wagner would be found somewhere in Grant County, Oregon.

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 Wagner ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Wagner.

Within Oregon, the name Wagner is unique.

Beyond Oregon, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Wagner.
    • California
      • Los Angeles 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 California community of Wagner [Los Angeles County].
      • San Joaquin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Wagner [San Joaquin County].
      • Tuolumne County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Wagner [Tuolumne County].
    • Colorado
      • Washington County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Wagner [Washington County].
    • Florida
      • Seminole County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Wagner [Seminole County].
    • Indiana
      • Lake 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 Wagner [Lake County].
    • Iowa
      • Clayton 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 Iowa community of Wagner [Clayton County].
    • Kansas
      • Marion 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 Wagner [Marion County].
      • Shawnee 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 Wagner [Shawnee County].
    • Kentucky
      • Rowan 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 Kentucky community of Wagner [Rowan County].
    • Michigan
      • Missaukee 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 Wagner [Missaukee County].
    • Montana
      • Phillips County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Wagner [Phillips County].
    • Nevada
      • Nye County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Wagner [Nye County].
    • New Mexico
      • Torrance County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Wagner [Torrance County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Mifflin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wagner [Mifflin County].
    • South Dakota
      • Charles Mix County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Wagner [Charles Mix County].
    • Texas
      • Hunt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wagner [Hunt County].
    • Washington
      • Snohomish County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Wagner [Snohomish County].
    • West Virginia
      • Mason County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Wagner [Mason County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Marinette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Wagner [Marinette County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wagner ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Grant 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 Grant County.

CalebThorn Creek Butte
 Top
Ellingson MillTrout Creek
  
HomerWaterman
 Wind Rock
John Day CityWinlock
  

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 Wagner 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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