Do you know of Sunshine ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sunshine. 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 Sunshine.
Our sources for Sunshine (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Sunshine other than they indicate that Sunshine would be found somewhere in Big Horn County, Wyoming.
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 Sunshine ...
We found 44 communities that share the name Sunshine.
There is one other community in Wyoming which is also named Sunshine.
Beyond Wyoming, we know of another 43 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 43 communities, 42 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Wyoming ...
- Park County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Sunshine [Park County].
- Park County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Hale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sunshine [Hale County].
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Sunshine.
- Arizona
- Coconino County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Sunshine [Coconino County].
- Arkansas
- Ashley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sunshine [Ashley County].
- Garland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sunshine [Garland County].
- Howard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sunshine [Howard County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Sunshine.
- Colorado
- Boulder County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Sunshine [Boulder County].
- Garfield 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 Sunshine [Garfield County].
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sunshine [Hancock County].
- Iowa
- Appanoose County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Sunshine [Appanoose County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Sunshine [Hancock County].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Sunshine [Montgomery County].
- Missouri
- Randolph County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Sunshine [Randolph County].
- Ray 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 Missouri community of Sunshine [Ray County].
- Nebraska
- New Mexico
- Luna County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Sunshine [Luna County].
- Roosevelt County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Sunshine [Roosevelt County].
- Taos County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Sunshine [Taos County].
- North Carolina
- Rutherford County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sunshine [Rutherford County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Sunshine.
- Pennsylvania
- Berks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sunshine [Berks County].
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sunshine [Fayette County].
- Luzerne 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 Pennsylvania community of Sunshine [Luzerne County].
- Wayne 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 Pennsylvania community of Sunshine [Wayne County].
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sunshine [Blount County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Pacific 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 Washington community of Sunshine [Pacific County].
- Whitman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Sunshine [Whitman County].
- West Virginia
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sunshine ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sunshine:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Sunshine - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Big Horn 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 Big Horn County.
| Alamo | Marquette |
| Altona | McDonald |
| Arland | |
| Red Bank | |
| Corbett | |
| Sage Creek Spur | |
| Embar | |
| Torrey | |
| Fenton | |
| Zube | |
| Magnet Cove |
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 Sunshine 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. |