Do you know of Bakers ???

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

Our sources for Bakers (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 Bakers other than they indicate that Bakers would be found somewhere in Hillsdale County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1897 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 Bakers ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Bakers.

There are two communities within Michigan that are also named Bakers.

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

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Newaygo 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 Michigan community of Bakers [Newaygo County].
- Ottawa 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 Michigan community of Bakers [Ottawa County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Marion 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 Bakers [Marion County].
- Kentucky
  - Caldwell County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bakers [Caldwell County].
- Louisiana
  - Franklin Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Bakers [Franklin Parish].
- Montana
  - Valley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Bakers [Valley County].
- North Carolina
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bakers [Union County].
- Ohio
  - Lorain 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 Ohio community of Bakers [Lorain County].
- South Carolina
  - Horry 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 South Carolina community of Bakers [Horry County].
- Tennessee
  - Davidson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bakers [Davidson County].
- West Virginia
  - Jackson 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 West Virginia community of Bakers [Jackson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bakers ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

More Orphans in Hillsdale 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 Hillsdale 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Bakers 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/