Do you know of Petrel ???

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

Our sources for Petrel (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Petrel other than they indicate that Petrel would be found somewhere in Alger County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1903 and closed  in 1907.

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 Petrel ...

We found two communities that share the name Petrel.

Within Michigan, the name Petrel is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Manitoba
    • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Petrel.
  • North Dakota
    • Adams County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Petrel [Adams County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Petrel ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Petrel:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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  Alger 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 Alger County.