Do you know of The Mission ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of The Mission, so we are uncertain whether The Mission is 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 The Mission would be found somewhere in Chippewa 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 The Mission ...

We found 25 communities that share the name The Mission.

There are two communities within Michigan that are also named The Mission.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 24 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Baraga 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 The Mission [Baraga County].
- Chippewa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of The Mission [Chippewa County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Pima 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 Arizona community of The Mission [Pima County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of The Mission.
- California
  - Los Angeles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of The Mission [Los Angeles County].
  - San Francisco 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 California community of The Mission [San Francisco County].
  - San Luis Obispo 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 California community of The Mission [San Luis Obispo County].
  - Santa Barbara County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of The Mission [Santa Barbara County].
  - Santa Clara 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 California community of The Mission [Santa Clara County].
  - Yuba County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of The Mission [Yuba County].
- Delaware
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of The Mission [Sussex County].
- Idaho
  - Kootenai 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 Idaho community of The Mission [Kootenai County].
- Kansas
  - Harvey 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 Kansas community of The Mission [Harvey County].
  - Johnson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of The Mission [Johnson County].
  - Neosho 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 Kansas community of The Mission [Neosho County].
  - Shawnee 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 Kansas community of The Mission [Shawnee County].
- Minnesota
  - Crow Wing County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of The Mission [Crow Wing County].
- Montana
  - Park 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 Montana community of The Mission [Park County].
- Nebraska
  - Pawnee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of The Mission [Pawnee County].
- North Carolina
  - Cherokee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of The Mission [Cherokee County].
  - Stanly 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 The Mission [Stanly County].
- Oregon
  - Umatilla County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of The Mission [Umatilla County].
- South Dakota
  - Todd County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of The Mission [Todd County].
- Texas
  - Hidalgo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of The Mission [Hidalgo County].
- Washington
  - Kittitas 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 Washington community of The Mission [Kittitas County].

More Orphans in Chippewa 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 Chippewa 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 The Mission 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.