Do you know of Wide Water ???

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

Our sources for Wide Water (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 Wide Water other than they indicate that Wide Water would be found somewhere in Stafford County, Virginia.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wide Water ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Wide Water - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Wide Water.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 51/85856   (Place Name: Wide Water)

County: Stafford     (FIPS State/County: 51/179)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Stafford 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 Stafford County.