Do you know of Westport ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Westport. 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 Westport.
We found mention of Westport as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Dane County, Wisconsin.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1854 and closed in 1876.
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 Westport ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Westport.
There is one other community in Wisconsin which is also named Westport.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, 23 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Westport [Richland County].
- Richland County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Mendocino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Westport [Mendocino County].
- Connecticut
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Westport [Fairfield County].
- Georgia
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Westport [Columbia County].
- Illinois
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Westport [Lawrence County].
- Indiana
- Decatur County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Westport [Decatur County].
- Porter 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 Indiana community of Westport [Porter County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Oldham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Westport [Oldham County].
- Louisiana
- Rapides Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Westport [Rapides Parish].
- Maryland
- Baltimore City
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Westport [Baltimore City].
- Massachusetts
- Bristol County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Westport [Bristol County].
- Minnesota
- Pope County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Westport [Pope County].
- Missouri
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Westport [Jackson County].
- New Hampshire
- Cheshire County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Westport [Cheshire County].
- New York
- Essex County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Westport [Essex County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Westport.
- North Carolina
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Westport [Lincoln County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Westport.
- Oklahoma
- Pawnee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Westport [Pawnee County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Westport.
- Oregon
- Clatsop County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Westport [Clatsop County].
- Pennsylvania
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Westport [Clinton County].
- South Dakota
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Westport [Brown County].
- Tennessee
- Carroll County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Westport [Carroll County].
- Washington
- Grays Harbor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Westport [Grays Harbor County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Westport ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Westport:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Dane 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 Dane 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 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 Westport 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/ |