Do you know of Gibbs ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Gibbs 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 Gibbs would be found somewhere in Alger 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 Gibbs ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Gibbs.

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

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

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Montmorency 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 Gibbs [Montmorency County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Gibbs [Montgomery County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Gibbs.
- Connecticut
  - New London 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 Connecticut community of Gibbs [New London County].
- Idaho
  - Kootenai County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Gibbs [Kootenai County].
- Kansas
  - Chautauqua County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Gibbs [Chautauqua County].
- Kentucky
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Gibbs [Knox County].
- Louisiana
  - Saint Landry Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Gibbs [Saint Landry Parish].
- Massachusetts
  - Hampshire 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 Gibbs [Hampshire County].
- Missouri
  - Adair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Gibbs [Adair County].
  - Saint Charles 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 Missouri community of Gibbs [Saint Charles County].
- North Carolina
  - Burke 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 North Carolina community of Gibbs [Burke County].
- South Carolina
  - Union 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 Gibbs [Union County].
- Tennessee
  - Hardin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Gibbs [Hardin County].
  - Obion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Gibbs [Obion County].
- Texas
  - Dallas 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 Texas community of Gibbs [Dallas County].

More Orphans in Alger 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 Alger 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Gibbs 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.