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Do you know of Derby ???

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

Our sources for Derby (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 Derby other than they indicate that Derby would be found somewhere in Fremont County, Wyoming.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1895.

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 Derby ...

We found 28 communities that share the name Derby.

Within Wyoming, the name Derby is unique.

Beyond Wyoming, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 26 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Sumter County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Derby [Sumter County].
    • Colorado
      • Adams County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Derby [Adams County].
      • Arapahoe 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 Derby [Arapahoe County].
    • Connecticut
      • New Haven County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Derby [New Haven County].
    • Georgia
      • Troup 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 Georgia community of Derby [Troup County].
    • Illinois
      • Ford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Derby [Ford County].
      • Saline County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Derby [Saline County].
    • Indiana
      • Perry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Derby [Perry County].
    • Iowa
      • Lucas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Derby [Lucas County].
    • Kansas
      • Sedgwick County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Derby [Sedgwick County].
    • Kentucky
      • Webster County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Derby [Webster County].
    • Maine
      • Piscataquis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Derby [Piscataquis County].
    • Michigan
      • Berrien County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Derby [Berrien County].
    • Mississippi
      • Hancock 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 Mississippi community of Derby [Hancock County].
      • Pearl River County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Derby [Pearl River County].
    • Missouri
      • Saint Francois County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Derby [Saint Francois County].
    • Nevada
      • Washoe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Derby [Washoe County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Derby.
    • New York
      • Erie County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Derby [Erie County].
    • North Carolina
      • Richmond County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Derby [Richmond County].
    • Ohio
      • Pickaway County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Derby [Pickaway County].
    • Oregon
      • Jackson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Derby [Jackson County].
    • Prince Edward Island
      • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Derby.
    • Tennessee
      • Greene County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Derby [Greene County].
    • Texas
      • Frio County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Derby [Frio County].
    • Vermont
      • Orleans 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 Vermont community of Derby [Orleans County].
    • Virginia
      • Prince George County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Derby [Prince George County].
      • Wise County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Derby [Wise County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Derby ...

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

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 Derby - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Fremont 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 Fremont County.

BrownsvilleHailey
  
DallasLucky MacCamp
DuncanLyons
  
Gas HillsRongis
Gate 
 Shobon

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 Derby 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/









 

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