Do you know of Lewiston ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lewiston. 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 Lewiston.
Our sources for Lewiston (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 Lewiston other than they indicate that Lewiston would be found somewhere in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1873 and closed in 1922.
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 Lewiston ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Lewiston.
Within West Virginia, the name Lewiston is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Lewiston [Greene County].
- California
- Trinity County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Lewiston [Trinity County].
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Nez Perce County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Lewiston [Nez Perce County].
- Indiana
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lewiston [Jasper County].
- Kansas
- Cherokee 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 Lewiston [Cherokee County].
- Doniphan 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 Kansas community of Lewiston [Doniphan County].
- Nemaha 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 Kansas community of Lewiston [Nemaha County].
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Androscoggin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Lewiston [Androscoggin County].
- Maryland
- Prince George's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Lewiston [Prince George's County].
- Michigan
- Montmorency County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lewiston [Montmorency County].
- Minnesota
- Winona County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Lewiston [Winona County].
- Missouri
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lewiston [Montgomery County].
- Montana
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Lewiston [Jefferson County].
- Nebraska
- Gage 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 Nebraska community of Lewiston [Gage County].
- Pawnee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Lewiston [Pawnee County].
- New Mexico
- Roosevelt County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Lewiston [Roosevelt County].
- New York
- Niagara County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lewiston [Niagara County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lewiston [Hamilton County].
- South Dakota
- Utah
- Cache County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Lewiston [Cache County].
- Vermont
- Windsor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Lewiston [Windsor County].
- Virginia
- Spotsylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Lewiston [Spotsylvania County].
- Wisconsin
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Lewiston [Columbia County].
- Wyoming
- Fremont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Lewiston [Fremont County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lewiston ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lewiston:
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 Lewiston - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Kanawha 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 Kanawha 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 Lewiston 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/ |