Do you know of Matthews ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Matthews 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 Matthews would be found somewhere in Berrien 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 Matthews ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Matthews.

Within Michigan, the name Matthews is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Matthews [Montgomery County].
- Colorado
  - Weld County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Matthews [Weld County].
- Georgia
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Matthews [Jefferson County].
- Illinois
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Matthews [Perry County].
- Indiana
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Matthews [Grant County].
- Kentucky
  - Breckinridge 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 Kentucky community of Matthews [Breckinridge County].
- Maryland
  - Talbot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Matthews [Talbot County].
- Mississippi
  - Calhoun 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 Mississippi community of Matthews [Calhoun County].
  - Jones County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Matthews [Jones County].
  - Pontotoc County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Matthews [Pontotoc County].
- Missouri
  - New Madrid County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Matthews [New Madrid County].
- Montana
  - Gallatin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Matthews [Gallatin County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Matthews.
- New Jersey
  - Monmouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Matthews [Monmouth County].
- North Carolina
  - Mecklenburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Matthews [Mecklenburg County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Chester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Matthews [Chester County].
- Texas
  - Colorado County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Matthews [Colorado County].

More Orphans in Berrien 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 Berrien 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 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 Matthews 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.