Do you know of Bainbridge ???

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

Our sources for Bainbridge (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 Bainbridge other than they indicate that Bainbridge would be found somewhere in Berrien County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1836 and closed in 1905.

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 Bainbridge ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name Bainbridge.

Within Michigan, the name Bainbridge is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

In addition to the above occurrences of Bainbridge, we know of another community located outside of the United States and Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Lauderdale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bainbridge [Lauderdale County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Bainbridge.
- Georgia
  - Decatur County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bainbridge [Decatur County].
- Illinois
  - Williamson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bainbridge [Williamson County].
- Indiana
  - Putnam County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bainbridge [Putnam County].
- Kentucky
  - Christian County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bainbridge [Christian County].
- Maryland
  - Cecil 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 Maryland community of Bainbridge [Cecil County].
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bainbridge [Worcester County].
- Minnesota
  - Cottonwood 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 Bainbridge [Cottonwood County].
- Missouri
  - Cape Girardeau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bainbridge [Cape Girardeau County].
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Bainbridge [Clinton County].
- New York
  - Chenango County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bainbridge [Chenango County].
- North Carolina
  - Wake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bainbridge [Wake County].
- Ohio
  - Geauga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bainbridge [Geauga County].
  - Ross County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Bainbridge [Ross County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Lancaster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bainbridge [Lancaster County].
- Washington
  - Kitsap County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Bainbridge [Kitsap County].

Communities Beyond North America ...
- England
  - We haven't found the location of this Bainbridge

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bainbridge ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Berrien 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 Berrien 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 Bainbridge 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/