Do you know of Patterson ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Patterson. 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 Patterson.
Our sources for Patterson (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Patterson other than they indicate that Patterson would be found somewhere in Polk County, Wisconsin.
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 Patterson ...
We found 42 communities that share the name Patterson.
Within Wisconsin, the name Patterson is unique.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another 42 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 42 communities, 39 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Patterson [Clay County].
- Saint Francis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Patterson [Saint Francis County].
- Sebastian County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Patterson [Sebastian County].
- Woodruff County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Patterson [Woodruff County].
- California
- Nevada 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 Patterson [Nevada County].
- Stanislaus County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Patterson [Stanislaus County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Lemhi County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Patterson [Lemhi County].
- Illinois
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Patterson [Greene County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Harvey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Patterson [Harvey County].
- Kingman 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 Kansas community of Patterson [Kingman County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Mary Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Patterson [Saint Mary Parish].
- Maryland
- Mississippi
- Attala County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Patterson [Attala County].
- Missouri
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Patterson [Wayne County].
- Montana
- Nevada
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Patterson.
- New Mexico
- New York
- Bronx 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 New York community of Patterson [Bronx County].
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Patterson [Putnam County].
- North Carolina
- Caldwell County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Patterson [Caldwell County].
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Latimer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Patterson [Latimer County].
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny 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 Patterson [Allegheny County].
- Juniata 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 Patterson [Juniata County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Patterson.
- Tennessee
- Rutherford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Patterson [Rutherford County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Patterson [Douglas County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Patterson ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Patterson:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Patterson - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Polk 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 Polk County.
| Alabama | Ilo |
| Alden | |
| Alletta | Loraine |
| Avondale | |
| North Valley | |
| Black Brook | |
| Osceola Mills | |
| East Lincoln | |
| El Salem | Pineville |
| Farmington Centre | Saint Croix Junction |
| South Farmington | |
| Gregory | |
| Wagon Landing |
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 Patterson 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. |