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Stumptown

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Stumptown is a name or nickname that has been applied to several places in the United States (listed alphabetically by state):

The name Stumpville likewise has appeared in various locales. Both of these names share the theme that U.S. town names before the mid-20th century were profuse because every village or roadside cluster of homes had its own name (in addition to whichever township was its legal municipality), in a way that the postal code system later deemphasized to the extent that many of the minor town names have now disappeared from current use (persisting solely in contexts such as historical documentation, reminiscences, and so on).

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  1. ^ "From Robin's Nest to Stumptown". End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Archived from the original on November 22, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2012.