Do you know of McRae ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about McRae. 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 McRae.
We found mention of McRae as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Dickinson 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.
Communities Also Named McRae ...
We found ten communities that share the name McRae.
Within Michigan, the name McRae is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Barbour 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 Alabama community of McRae [Barbour County].
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of McRae [Covington County].
- Henry County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of McRae [Henry County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of McRae.
- Arkansas
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of McRae [White County].
- Florida
- Clay 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 Florida community of McRae [Clay County].
- Georgia
- Telfair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of McRae [Telfair County].
- Montana
- Big Horn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of McRae [Big Horn County].
- Texas
- Montgomery 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 McRae [Montgomery County].
- Virginia
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of McRae [Cumberland County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for McRae ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about McRae:
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Dickinson 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 Dickinson 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 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 McRae 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. |