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Welcome to New Michigan ...So far, we found very little information about New Michigan. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added New Michigan to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with New Michigan, please Contact Us. New Michigan would have been located within present day Livingston County<2>. The location of New Michigan has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of New Michigan, you might consider that their post office opened in 1849. While the community is gone, the present day location for New Michigan is 620 feet [189 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where New Michigan was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time New Michigan would have been located in the (815) and (779)<5> area codes. Communities near New Michigan ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near New Michigan.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around New Michigan. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for New Michigan. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of New Michigan. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around New Michigan. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around New Michigan. See our Newspapers Page for New Michigan. Adding New Michigan to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of New Michigan in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for New Michigan was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found New Michigan in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851). For more details, see References and Mentions for New Michigan. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Livingston County: www.livingstoncounty-il.org/ The official website for State of Illinois: https://illinois.gov Footnotes ...
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