Do you know of Pomona ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pomona. 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 Pomona.
Our sources for Pomona (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 Pomona other than they indicate that Pomona would be found somewhere in Snohomish County, Washington.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1895.
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 Pomona ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Pomona.
There is one other community in Washington which is also named Pomona.
Beyond Washington, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Washington ...
- Yakima County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Pomona [Yakima County].
- Yakima County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Pomona [Los Angeles County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Spalding County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Pomona [Spalding County].
- Illinois
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Pomona [Jackson County].
- Kansas
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Pomona [Franklin County].
- Maryland
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Pomona [Kent County].
- Michigan
- Berrien 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 Pomona [Berrien County].
- Manistee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Pomona [Manistee County].
- Missouri
- Howell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Pomona [Howell County].
- New Jersey
- Atlantic County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Pomona [Atlantic County].
- New York
- Rockland County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Pomona [Rockland County].
- North Carolina
- Guilford County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Pomona [Guilford County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Pomona.
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Loudoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Pomona [Loudoun County].
- Shenandoah 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 Pomona [Shenandoah County].
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Pomona [Westmoreland County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pomona ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pomona:
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 Pomona - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Snohomish 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 Snohomish 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 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 Pomona 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/ |