Do you know of Quinn ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Quinn. 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 Quinn.
Our source wasn't clear whether Quinn 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 Quinn would be found somewhere in Houghton 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 Quinn ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name Quinn.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Quinn.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Macomb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Quinn [Macomb County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Quinn [Union County].
- Georgia
- Jeff Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Quinn [Jeff Davis County].
- Kentucky
- Caldwell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Quinn [Caldwell County].
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Quinn [Baltimore County].
- Mississippi
- Jackson 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 Mississippi community of Quinn [Jackson County].
- Missouri
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Quinn [Lawrence County].
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Quinn [Putnam County].
- Montana
- Silver Bow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Quinn [Silver Bow County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Quinn.
- Oregon
- Columbia 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 Oregon community of Quinn [Columbia County].
- South Dakota
- Pennington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Quinn [Pennington County].
- Texas
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Quinn [Jasper County].
More Orphans in Houghton 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 Houghton 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 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 Quinn 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. |