Do you know of Portage ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Portage was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. We can't give a location other than its somewhere in Alaska

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 Portage ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Portage.

Within Alaska, the name Portage is unique.

Beyond Alaska, we know of another 22 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, nineteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Jo Daviess County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Portage [Jo Daviess County].
- Indiana
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Portage [Hamilton County].
  - Porter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Portage [Porter County].
- Kansas
  - Rooks 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 Kansas community of Portage [Rooks County].
- Louisiana
  - Saint Landry Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Portage [Saint Landry Parish].
- Maine
  - Aroostook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Portage [Aroostook County].
- Michigan
  - Delta 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 Michigan community of Portage [Delta County].
  - Kalamazoo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Portage [Kalamazoo County].
- Minnesota
  - Aitkin 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 Minnesota community of Portage [Aitkin County].
- Missouri
  - Osage 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 Portage [Osage County].
- Montana
  - Cascade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Portage [Cascade County].
- New Brunswick
  - 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 New Brunswick community of Portage.
- New York
  - Livingston 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 New York community of Portage [Livingston County].
  - Wyoming 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 New York community of Portage [Wyoming County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Portage.
- Ohio
  - Wood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Portage [Wood County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Cambria County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Portage [Cambria County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Portage.
- Utah
  - Box Elder County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Portage [Box Elder County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Portage [King County].
  - Skagit County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Portage [Skagit County].
- Wisconsin
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Portage [Columbia County].

Footnotes ...

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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 Portage 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 . 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.