Do you know of Saint Clair Springs ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Saint Clair Springs. 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 Saint Clair Springs.

Our sources for Saint Clair Springs (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 Saint Clair Springs other than they indicate that Saint Clair Springs would be found somewhere in Saint Clair County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1884 and closed  in 1902.

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 Saint Clair Springs ...

We found one communities that share the name Saint Clair Springs.

Within Michigan, the name Saint Clair Springs is unique.

Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Saint Clair Springs in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alabama
    • Saint Clair County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Saint Clair Springs [Saint Clair County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Clair Springs ...

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

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)

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Saint Clair Springs - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Michigan Central Railroad Time Tables (July 1912)
Published by Michigan Central Railroad

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Saint Clair 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 Saint Clair County.