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Do you know of East Thetford ???

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

Our sources for East Thetford (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 East Thetford other than they indicate that East Thetford would be found somewhere in Genesee County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1855 and closed  in 1902.

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 East Thetford ...

We found one communities that share the name East Thetford.

Within Michigan, the name East Thetford is unique.

Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named East Thetford in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Vermont
      • Orange County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of East Thetford [Orange County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Thetford ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for East Thetford - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for East Thetford.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 26/24460   (Place Name: East Thetford)

County: Genesee     (FIPS State/County: 26/049)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, East Thetford) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Genesee County ...

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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 Genesee County.

Atwood Junction 
 McGrew
Beecher HeightsMontrose Station
BeltMott Park
Branch SidingMount Morris Station
 Mundy
Cody 
CragoNavan
Crapo FarmNorth Flint
CrapoNorth Linden
CrockersvilleNorth Side
  
Davison StationOtterburn
Dawson 
 Paxton
East FlintPotters Lake
Egypt 
ElkRichfield
 Rogers
Fentonville 
Flint River JunctionShoecraft
 South Flint
Gaines StationStony Run
Genesee Village 
 Thread
HamiltonTorrey
Horton 
 West Flint
KearsargeWinchester Village
Kearsley 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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