Do you know of Belvedere ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Belvedere. 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 Belvedere.
Our sources for Belvedere (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 Belvedere other than they indicate that Belvedere would be found somewhere in Charlevoix County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1893 and closed in 1894.
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 Belvedere ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Belvedere.
Within Michigan, the name Belvedere is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 21 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Mobile County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Belvedere [Mobile County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Belvedere.
- California
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Maine
- Maryland
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Belvedere [Jefferson County].
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Belvedere.
- South Carolina
- Aiken County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Belvedere [Aiken County].
- Berkeley County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Belvedere [Berkeley County].
- Richland 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 South Carolina community of Belvedere [Richland County].
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Belvedere [Spartanburg County].
- Virginia
- Fairfax County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Belvedere [Fairfax County].
- Norfolk City
- 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 Virginia community of Belvedere [Norfolk City].
- Portsmouth City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Belvedere [Portsmouth City].
- Spotsylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Belvedere [Spotsylvania County].
- Washington
- Okanogan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Belvedere [Okanogan County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Belvedere ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Belvedere:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Belvedere.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 26/07180 (Place Name: Belvedere)
County: Charlevoix (FIPS State/County: 26/029)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Belvedere) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Charlevoix 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 Charlevoix County.
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 Belvedere 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |