Do you know of Wilbur ???

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

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

Communities Also Named Wilbur ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Wilbur.

There is one other community in Oregon which is also named Wilbur.

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

Communities Located In Oregon ...
- Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Wilbur [Douglas County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
  - Morgan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Wilbur [Morgan County].
- Kansas
  - Greenwood 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 Wilbur [Greenwood County].
- Kentucky
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wilbur [Lawrence County].
- Missouri
  - Pemiscot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wilbur [Pemiscot County].
- New York
  - Ulster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Wilbur [Ulster County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Wilbur.
- Pennsylvania
  - Lehigh County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wilbur [Lehigh County].
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Wilbur [Somerset County].
- Tennessee
  - Carter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Wilbur [Carter County].
- Washington
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Wilbur [Lincoln County].
- West Virginia
  - Logan 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 West Virginia community of Wilbur [Logan County].
  - Tyler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Wilbur [Tyler County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wilbur ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Umatilla 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 Umatilla County.

Alba	Juniper Station

Bates	Maxwell
	McNary Dam
Canon	Milton
Coyote
	Pendleton Junction
Dorman
	Ridge
Foster	Ruddock
Freewater
	Saxe
Grand View	State Line
	Stokes
Hillsdale
	Warren

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 Wilbur 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.