Do you know of Grand Coulee ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Grand Coulee. 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 Grand Coulee.<1>
Our sources for Grand Coulee (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 Grand Coulee other than they indicate that Grand Coulee would be found somewhere in Lincoln County, Washington.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1883 and closed in 1895.
Communities Also Named Grand Coulee ...
We found two communities that share the name Grand Coulee.
There is one other community in Washington which is also named Grand Coulee.
Beyond Washington, there is another community also named Grand Coulee in the United States and Canada.
- Communities Located In Washington ...
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Grand Coulee [Grant County].
- Grant County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Grand Coulee.
- Saskatchewan
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grand Coulee ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Grand Coulee:
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 Grand Coulee - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County.
| Crab Creek | |
| Crescent | Larene |
| Layton | |
| Denny's | Lemars |
| Egypt | Minnie Falls |
| Eleanor | |
| Parrott | |
| Fairview | |
| Fellows | Rockdale |
| Fry | |
| Sassin | |
| Gravilles | Sedalia |
| Kelly | Wells |
| Kline | Wheatdale |
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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |