Do you know of Templeton ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Templeton. 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 Templeton.

Our sources for Templeton (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 Templeton other than they indicate that Templeton would be found somewhere in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1889 and closed in 1932.

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 Templeton ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Templeton.

Within Wisconsin, the name Templeton is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - San Luis Obispo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Templeton [San Luis Obispo County].
- Colorado
  - El Paso 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 Colorado community of Templeton [El Paso County].
- Indiana
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Templeton [Benton County].
- Iowa
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Templeton [Carroll County].
- Kansas
  - Ness 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 Templeton [Ness County].
- Massachusetts
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Templeton [Worcester County].
- Oregon
  - Coos County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Templeton [Coos County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Armstrong County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Templeton [Armstrong County].
- Quebec
  - Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Templeton.
- South Dakota
  - Jerauld 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 South Dakota community of Templeton [Jerauld County].
- Tennessee
  - Dyer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Templeton [Dyer County].
- Virginia
  - Prince George County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Templeton [Prince George County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Templeton ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Templeton:

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 Templeton - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Templeton.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 55/79225 (Place Name: Templeton)

County: Waukesha (FIPS State/County: 55/133)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Templeton) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in Waukesha 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 Waukesha County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Templeton 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/