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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Westerly came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Westerly in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Westerly. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Westerly data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (1803)
Printed by order of the Post Master General

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Rand McNally Map of Rhode Island (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Westerly is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Westerly. See our Misc Page for Westerly for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/