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Do you know of Spruce ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Spruce 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 Spruce would be found somewhere in Baraga 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 Spruce ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Spruce.

There are two communities within Michigan that are also named Spruce.

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

  • Communities Located In Michigan ...
    • Alcona County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Spruce [Alcona County].
    • Dickinson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Spruce [Dickinson County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Placer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Spruce [Placer County].
    • Colorado
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Spruce [Douglas County].
    • Manitoba
      • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Spruce.
    • Minnesota
      • Saint Louis County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Spruce [Saint Louis County].
    • Missouri
      • Bates County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Spruce [Bates County].
    • Nevada
      • Elko County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Spruce [Elko County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Clinton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spruce [Clinton County].
      • Huntingdon 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 Pennsylvania community of Spruce [Huntingdon County].
      • Indiana County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Spruce [Indiana County].
    • West Virginia
      • Pocahontas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Spruce [Pocahontas County].
      • Upshur 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 West Virginia community of Spruce [Upshur County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Oconto County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Spruce [Oconto County].

More Orphans in  Baraga 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 Baraga County.

ArvonNewton
 Newton's
BashoreNewtonville
Beaufort JunctionNorwood Mine
Beaufort Mine 
BeaufortOhio Mine Spur
BellaireOhio Mine
BessOpal
Birch 
Bovine SidingPalmer
 Papin
CarlsonPaquette
Cliffs SidingPerch Creek
 Perch
Foyportland Mine
Froberg 
 Redruth
HamarRobinson
Hutula 
 Shirley
Imperial Mine JunctionSpurr Mine
Imperial MineSpurr Mountain
Iron BridgeSpurr
 Sturgeon
KeelerSummit
King Lake 
KuroTaylor Mine
KyroTaylor
 Tibbets
LeoTitan Mine
 Toma Siding
Mission 
MurphyWebster Mine
 Wetmore Mine

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 Spruce 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.









 

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