Do you know of Ransom ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ransom. 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 Ransom.
We found mention of Ransom as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Marquette 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.
Communities Also Named Ransom ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Ransom.
There are two communities within Michigan that are also named Ransom.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Calhoun County
- Hillsdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Ransom [Hillsdale County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Illinois
- La Salle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Ransom [La Salle County].
- Kansas
- Ness County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Ransom [Ness County].
- Kentucky
- Pike County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Ransom [Pike County].
- Minnesota
- Nobles County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ransom [Nobles County].
- Ohio
- Preble County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ransom [Preble County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lackawanna County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ransom [Lackawanna County].
- Texas
- Utah
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ransom ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ransom:
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 Marquette 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 Marquette 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 Ransom 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. |