Do you know of West Chester ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about West Chester. 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 Chester.
Our sources for West Chester (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of West Chester other than they indicate that West Chester would be found somewhere in Chester County, South Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1892.
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 West Chester ...
We found seven communities that share the name West Chester.
There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named West Chester.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of West Chester [Richland County].
- Richland County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Iowa
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of West Chester [Washington County].
- Michigan
- Ottawa 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 West Chester [Ottawa County].
- Ohio
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Chester [Butler County].
- Tuscarawas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Chester [Tuscarawas County].
- Pennsylvania
- Chester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of West Chester [Chester County].
- Virginia
- Roanoke City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of West Chester [Roanoke City].
- Iowa
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Chester ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about West Chester:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for West Chester - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Chester 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 Chester County.
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 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 West Chester 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |