Do you know of Oakfield Center ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Oakfield Center. 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 Oakfield Center.
Our sources for Oakfield Center (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Oakfield Center other than they indicate that Oakfield Center would be found somewhere in Kent 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.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oakfield Center ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Oakfield Center:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Oakfield Center - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Oakfield Center.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 26/59600 (Place Name: Oakfield Center)
County: Kent (FIPS State/County: 26/081)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Oakfield Center) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Kent County ...
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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 Kent County.