Do you know of Avis ???

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

Our sources for Avis (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Avis other than they indicate that Avis would be found somewhere in Allegan County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1892 and closed  in 1903.

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 Avis ...

We found six communities that share the name Avis.

Within Michigan, the name Avis is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Knox County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Avis [Knox County].
  • New Mexico
    • Otero County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Avis [Otero County].
  • Ohio
    • Putnam County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Avis [Putnam County].
  • Pennsylvania
    • Clinton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Avis [Clinton County].
  • Virginia
    • Augusta County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Avis [Augusta County].
  • West Virginia
    • Summers County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Avis [Summers County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Avis ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

More Orphans in  Allegan County ...

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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 Allegan County.