Do you know of Swift ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Swift 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 Swift would be found somewhere in Mackinac 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 Swift ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Swift.

Within Michigan, the name Swift is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Baldwin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Swift [Baldwin County].
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Swift.
- Florida
  - Polk 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 Florida community of Swift [Polk County].
- Illinois
  - DuPage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Swift [DuPage County].
- Kansas
  - Nemaha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Swift [Nemaha County].
- Louisiana
  - Webster Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Swift [Webster Parish].
- Minnesota
  - Roseau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Swift [Roseau County].
- Missouri
  - Pemiscot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Swift [Pemiscot County].
- Montana
  - Cascade 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 Montana community of Swift [Cascade County].
- Nebraska
  - Otoe 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 Nebraska community of Swift [Otoe County].
- Ohio
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Swift [Washington County].
- Tennessee
  - Hardin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Swift [Hardin County].
- Texas
  - Nacogdoches County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Swift [Nacogdoches County].
- Washington
  - Whitman County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Swift [Whitman County].

More Orphans in Mackinac 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 Mackinac County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Swift 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.