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Do you know of Farmers ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Farmers was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Farmers would be found somewhere in Ottawa County, Michigan.

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 Farmers ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Farmers.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Farmers.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Michigan ...
    • Sanilac 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 Farmers [Sanilac County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Weld County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Farmers [Weld County].
    • Indiana
      • Owen County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Farmers [Owen County].
      • Rush County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Farmers [Rush County].
    • Kentucky
      • Rowan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Farmers [Rowan County].
    • Louisiana
      • Saint Mary Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Farmers [Saint Mary Parish].
    • Massachusetts
      • Bristol 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 Massachusetts community of Farmers [Bristol County].
    • Ohio
      • Clinton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Farmers [Clinton County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • York County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Farmers [York County].
    • Virginia
      • Caroline 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 Virginia community of Farmers [Caroline County].
      • Pittsylvania County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Farmers [Pittsylvania County].

More Orphans in  Ottawa 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 Ottawa County.

BakersMontello Park
Bass RiverMountain Beach
Beech Tree 
BerlinNew Groningen
Big SpringNorth Holland
Blendon 
BottjeOaklawn
BushkillOconto
 Ohio Mill
Central ParkOlive Hills
College LandingOlive
Crockery CreekOttawa Beach
CronjeOttawa Station
 Ottawa
Debri 
 Penn Junction
East HollandPigeon
ElginThe Plaza
Evergreen ParkPottamie
  
FaroweResort Junction
Fort HowardRosemound
  
GeorgetownSheldon
 South Georgetown
HanleySpoonville
HeathStrawberry Point
Hudson 
 Veneklassen
Jenison ParkVentura
Jenisonville 
JohnsvilleWalker
 Waukuzoo
KirkWest Chester
Kirk's JunctionWest Spring Lake
 Windmill Island
Macatawa Junction 
MarbleZams Spur
Mill Point 

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Farmers 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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