Do you know of Maple ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Maple. 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 Maple.
Our sources for Maple (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 Maple other than they indicate that Maple would be found somewhere in San Juan County, Washington.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1886 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 Maple ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Maple.
Within Washington, the name Maple is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Maple [Carroll County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Maple [Madison County].
- Kentucky
- Taylor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Maple [Taylor County].
- Maine
- Michigan
- Ionia 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 Maple [Ionia County].
- Oceana County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Maple [Oceana County].
- Wayne County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Maple [Wayne County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Dallas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Maple [Dallas County].
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- Currituck County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Maple [Currituck County].
- Ohio
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Maple [Brown County].
- Oklahoma
- Sequoyah County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Maple [Sequoyah County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Chester 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 Pennsylvania community of Maple [Chester County].
- Washington County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Maple [Washington County].
- South Carolina
- Greenville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Maple [Greenville County].
- Texas
- Bailey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Maple [Bailey County].
- Collin 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 Texas community of Maple [Collin County].
- Red River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Maple [Red River County].
- West Virginia
- Monongalia County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Maple [Monongalia County].
- Wisconsin
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Maple [Douglas County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Maple ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Maple:
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 Maple - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in San Juan 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 San Juan County.
| Blakely Island | Newhall |
| Griswold | Werner |
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Maple 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/ |