Where is or was Tipso?

Charles FEIL of Tipso was listed in Church Affiliations of the Big Bend Country Circa 1904 as a member of the German Lutheran Church in Sprague.

By 1911 when he and Rosa LINK were married he gave his address as Almira and on the 1920 census in Spokane.

http://geonames.usgs.gov/redirect.html
shows a Tipsoo Lake in Pierce County

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
shows this man obtained land via the Homestead Act in 1891 and 1896. The 1891 purchase was 160 acres, in 1896, he obtained 80 more.

The Legal Land Description is shown in the second tab. I can tell you how to find this land if desired. I will look later to see if there was any area in that land purchase known as "Tipso" or anything close.

Ron Bestrom

From Postmarked Washington, Lincoln and Adams Counties, by Guy Reed Ramsey, June, 1977.

TIPSO. Established April 13, 1899, George W. Peterman; David H. Morton, September 27, 1907; George W. Peterman, May 6, 1908; Discontinued November 30, 1909 – mail to Almira.

Location: 12 ½ miles due north of Almira, 7 miles southeast of Grand Coulee (NE/SW/NW Section 23, T28N, R31E).

Tipso post office is supposed to have replaced the old Grand Coulee post office which was in operation from April 3, 1883 to September 19, 1895.

Tipso Post office was quartered in a general merchandise store. The area had been settled much earlier, about 1888. The store was reported as still operating in 1911.

* stage from Almira supplied mail daily.

Thank You! Really appreciate the information about Tipso.

Thank you Ron. I had been in on the BLM site and found the records but from your e-mail it jarred me into looking for plat maps which is something I haven't done before. Really appreciate the help.

Barbara supplied the information for Tipso so I got some really great help.

So, you have already looked a plat map? If so, GREAT !

If not, a topo plat map for that area can be found online also.

Ron Bestrom

My Grandfather and Uncle (Paul and Dick Douglas) used to farm ground right about where you are talking about.They called it the Weeks place. It was kind of the headwaters of Sring Canyon. Do you have the section, township and range of the place you are talking about? The Herdrick family farms ground around there as well.

The Names Feil and Lang look to me like they are Germans from Russia. I have distant Feil cousins and I think some Lang ones as well.

Don Hochstatter, Moses Lake WA