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Do you know of Winlock ???

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

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

Communities Also Named Winlock ...

We found two communities that share the name Winlock.

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

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

  • Communities Located In Oregon ...
    • Wheeler County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Winlock [Wheeler County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Washington
      • Lewis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Winlock [Lewis County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Winlock ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Winlock - 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.

Caleb 
 Thorn Creek Butte
DuncanvilleTop
 Trout Creek
Ellingson Mill 
 Wagner
GrantWaterman
 White Pine
HomerWind Rock
  
John Day CityYeoville

Footnotes ...

<1>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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