Do you know of Waldo ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Waldo. 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 Waldo.
Our sources for Waldo (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 Waldo other than they indicate that Waldo would be found somewhere in Putnam County, West Virginia.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1925.
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 Waldo ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Waldo.
Within West Virginia, the name Waldo is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Talladega County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Waldo [Talladega County].
- Arkansas
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Waldo [Columbia County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Waldo.
- California
- Marin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Waldo [Marin County].
- Florida
- Alachua County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Waldo [Alachua County].
- Illinois
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Waldo [Livingston County].
- Kansas
- Russell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Waldo [Russell County].
- Kentucky
- Magoffin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Waldo [Magoffin County].
- Maine
- Waldo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Waldo [Waldo County].
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Waldo [Lake County].
- Mississippi
- Neshoba County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Waldo [Neshoba County].
- Missouri
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- Santa Fe County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Waldo [Santa Fe County].
- Ohio
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Waldo [Marion County].
- Oregon
- Josephine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Waldo [Josephine County].
- Texas
- Wisconsin
- Sheboygan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Waldo [Sheboygan County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Waldo ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Waldo:
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 Waldo - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Putnam 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 Putnam 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 Waldo 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/ |