Do you know of Whitman ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Whitman. 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 Whitman.
Our sources for Whitman (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 Whitman other than they indicate that Whitman would be found somewhere in Walla Walla County, Washington.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1870 and closed in 1875.
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 Whitman ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Whitman.
Within Washington, the name Whitman is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Whitman [Plymouth County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Winona County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Whitman [Winona County].
- Nebraska
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Whitman [Grant County].
- New York
- Delaware County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Whitman [Delaware County].
- North Dakota
- Nelson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Whitman [Nelson County].
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Whitman [Philadelphia County].
- Tennessee
- Campbell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Whitman [Campbell County].
- Texas
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Whitman [Washington County].
- West Virginia
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Whitman [Logan County].
- Wyoming
- Niobrara County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Whitman [Niobrara County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Whitman ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Whitman:
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 Whitman - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad
The FIPS database contains an entry for Whitman.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 53/78435 (Place Name: Whitman)
County: Walla Walla (FIPS State/County: 53/071)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Whitman) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Walla Walla 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 Walla Walla 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Whitman 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/ |