Do you know of Paxton ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Paxton 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 Paxton would be found somewhere in Genesee 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 Paxton ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Paxton.

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

Beyond Michigan, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Alpena County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Paxton [Alpena County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Plumas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Paxton [Plumas County].
- Florida
  - Walton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Paxton [Walton County].
- Georgia
  - Charlton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Paxton [Charlton County].
  - Liberty 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 Georgia community of Paxton [Liberty County].
- Illinois
  - Ford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Paxton [Ford County].
- Indiana
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Paxton [Sullivan County].
- Kansas
  - Harvey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Paxton [Harvey County].
- Kentucky
  - Breathitt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Paxton [Breathitt County].
- Massachusetts
  - Worcester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Paxton [Worcester County].
- Montana
  - Dawson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Paxton [Dawson County].
- Nebraska
  - Keith County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Paxton [Keith County].
- Ohio
  - Summit County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Paxton [Summit County].
- Oregon
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Paxton [Jefferson County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Dauphin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Paxton [Dauphin County].
- South Dakota
  - Gregory 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 Dakota community of Paxton [Gregory County].
- Texas
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Paxton [Shelby County].
- Washington
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Paxton [Adams County].
- West Virginia
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Paxton [Clay County].

More Orphans in Genesee 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 Genesee 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 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 Paxton 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.