Do you know of Royalton ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Royalton. 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 Royalton.
Our sources for Royalton (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 Royalton other than they indicate that Royalton would be found somewhere in Berrien County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1833 and closed in 1905.
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 Royalton ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Royalton.
Within Michigan, the name Royalton is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Royalton [Franklin County].
- Indiana
- Boone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Royalton [Boone County].
- Kentucky
- Magoffin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Royalton [Magoffin County].
- Russell 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 Kentucky community of Royalton [Russell County].
- Minnesota
- Morrison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Royalton [Morrison County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Royalton.
- New York
- Ohio
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Royalton [Fairfield County].
- Pennsylvania
- Dauphin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Royalton [Dauphin County].
- Vermont
- Windsor County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Royalton [Windsor County].
- Wisconsin
- Waupaca County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Royalton [Waupaca County].
- Illinois
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Royalton ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Royalton:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
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)
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Royalton - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Berrien 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 Berrien 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 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 Royalton 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |