Do you know of West Dayton ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about West Dayton. 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 West Dayton.<1>

We found mention of West Dayton as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Yamhill County, Oregon.

Communities Also Named West Dayton ...

We found one communities that share the name West Dayton.

Within Oregon, the name West Dayton is unique.

Beyond Oregon, there is another community also named West Dayton in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Ohio
  - Montgomery County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Dayton [Montgomery County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Dayton ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Yamhill 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 Yamhill County.

Armstrong
	Harrison
Birdwell
Broadmeads	Larch
Byersville
	Mountain House
Dundee Junction
	North Yam Hill
Erratic Rock Wayside
	West Chehalem
Gopher	Whites

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 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 West Dayton 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.