Do you know of Whiting ???

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

Our sources for Whiting (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Whiting other than they indicate that Whiting would be found somewhere in Lapeer 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 Whiting ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Whiting.

Within Michigan, the name Whiting is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Baldwin 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 Georgia community of Whiting [Baldwin County].
- Indiana
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Whiting [Lake County].
- Iowa
  - Monona County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Whiting [Monona County].
- Kansas
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Whiting [Jackson County].
- Maine
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Whiting [Washington County].
- Missouri
  - Mississippi County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Whiting [Mississippi County].
- New Jersey
  - Ocean County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Whiting [Ocean County].
- Tennessee
  - Carter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Whiting [Carter County].
- Vermont
  - Addison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Whiting [Addison County].
- Wisconsin
  - Portage County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Whiting [Portage County].
- Wyoming
  - Platte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Whiting [Platte County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Whiting ...

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in Lapeer 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 Lapeer 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 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 Whiting 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.