Do you know of Wentworth ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Wentworth. 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 Wentworth.
We found mention of Wentworth as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kent 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 Wentworth ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Wentworth.
Within Michigan, the name Wentworth is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, nine are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Missouri
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Wentworth [Newton County].
- New Hampshire
- Grafton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Wentworth [Grafton County].
- North Carolina
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Wentworth [Rockingham County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Wentworth.
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Wentworth.
- South Dakota
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Wentworth [Lake County].
- Texas
- Van Zandt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wentworth [Van Zandt County].
- Wisconsin
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Wentworth [Douglas County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wentworth ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Wentworth:
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.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Wentworth.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 26/85380 (Place Name: Wentworth)
County: Kent (FIPS State/County: 26/081)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Wentworth) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Kent 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 Kent 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 Wentworth 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. |