Do you know of Mason ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mason. 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 Mason.
Our sources for Mason (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 Mason other than they indicate that Mason would be found somewhere in Mason County, Washington.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1901.
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 Mason ...
We found 38 communities that share the name Mason.
There is one other community in Washington which is also named Mason.
Beyond Washington, we know of another 37 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Washington ...
- Spokane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Mason [Spokane County].
- Spokane County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Chicot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mason [Chicot County].
- California
- Lassen 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 California community of Mason [Lassen County].
- San Francisco 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 California community of Mason [San Francisco County].
- Florida
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Mason [Columbia County].
- Georgia
- Heard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Mason [Heard County].
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Delta 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 Mason [Delta County].
- Houghton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mason [Houghton County].
- Ingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mason [Ingham County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Montana
- Carbon 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 Montana community of Mason [Carbon County].
- Custer 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 Montana community of Mason [Custer County].
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- Lyon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Mason [Lyon County].
- New Hampshire
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Mason [Hillsborough County].
- North Dakota
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Mason [Cass County].
- Ohio
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mason [Warren County].
- Oklahoma
- Okfuskee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Mason [Okfuskee County].
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Venango County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mason [Venango County].
- Tennessee
- Tipton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Mason [Tipton County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Mason [Fairfax County].
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Mason [Sussex County].
- West Virginia
- Mason County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Mason [Mason County].
- Wisconsin
- Bayfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Mason [Bayfield County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mason ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mason:
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 Mason - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Mason 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 Mason County.
| Allyn - Grapeview | |
| Arkada | Harrison |
| Harstine | |
| Clifton | Helmer |
| Cushman Dam | |
| Pickerings | |
| Doubling | |
| Satsop | |
| Grove |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Mason 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/ |