Do you know of Bayside ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bayside. 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 Bayside.
Our sources for Bayside (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 Bayside other than they indicate that Bayside would be found somewhere in Bay County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1899 and closed in 1910.
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 Bayside ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Bayside.
Within Michigan, the name Bayside is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 25 communities, twenty are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- California
- Humboldt County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bayside [Humboldt County].
- Connecticut
- Fairfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Bayside [Fairfield County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Bayside [Hillsborough County].
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Bayside [Plymouth County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Bayside.
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Bayside [Rockingham County].
- New York
- Queens County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bayside [Queens County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Bayside.
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Bayside.
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bayside.
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Bayside.
- Rhode Island
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Bayside [Kent County].
- Tennessee
- Roane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Bayside [Roane County].
- Texas
- Cameron 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 Texas community of Bayside [Cameron County].
- Refugio County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bayside [Refugio County].
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Accomack County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bayside [Accomack County].
- Mathews County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bayside [Mathews County].
- Virginia Beach City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bayside [Virginia Beach City].
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Bayside [Westmoreland County].
- Wisconsin
- Milwaukee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Bayside [Milwaukee County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bayside ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bayside:
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.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Bayside.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 26/06200 (Place Name: Bayside)
County: Bay (FIPS State/County: 26/017)
Class: X4
More Orphans in Bay 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 Bay 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 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 Bayside 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |