Do you know of Brandon ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brandon. 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 Brandon.
We found mention of Brandon as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Oakland County, Michigan.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1843 and closed in 1885.
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 Brandon ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Brandon.
Within Michigan, the name Brandon is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 25 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Drew County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Brandon [Drew County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Brandon.
- California
- Colorado
- Kiowa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Brandon [Kiowa County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Brandon [New Castle County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Brandon [Hillsborough County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Buchanan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Brandon [Buchanan County].
- Louisiana
- West Feliciana Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Brandon [West Feliciana Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Brandon.
- Minnesota
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Brandon [Douglas County].
- Mississippi
- Rankin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Brandon [Rankin County].
- Missouri
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Brandon [Benton County].
- Montana
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Brandon [Madison County].
- Nebraska
- Perkins County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Brandon [Perkins County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brandon [Knox County].
- Pennsylvania
- Venango County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Brandon [Venango County].
- South Carolina
- Greenville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Brandon [Greenville County].
- South Dakota
- Minnehaha County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Brandon [Minnehaha County].
- Texas
- Hill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Brandon [Hill County].
- Vermont
- Rutland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Brandon [Rutland County].
- Virginia
- Prince George County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Brandon [Prince George County].
- Wisconsin
- Fond du Lac County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Brandon [Fond du Lac County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brandon ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Brandon:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
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
More Orphans in Oakland 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 Oakland 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 Brandon 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/ |