Do you know of Boyds ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Boyds was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Boyds would be found somewhere in Houghton 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 Boyds ...

We found nine communities that share the name Boyds.

Within Michigan, the name Boyds is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Chambers County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Boyds [Chambers County].
  - Montgomery 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 Alabama community of Boyds [Montgomery County].
- Maryland
  - Montgomery County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Boyds [Montgomery County].
- Ohio
  - Columbiana County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Boyds [Columbiana County].
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Boyds [Fayette County].
  - Miami 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 Boyds [Miami County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Boyds.
- South Carolina
  - Newberry 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 Boyds [Newberry County].
- Washington
  - Ferry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Boyds [Ferry County].

More Orphans in Houghton 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 Houghton County.

Ahmeek Mill
Albion	Laird
Allouez Mine	Lake Gerald
Arcadian Junction	Lake Junction
Arcadian Mine	Lakewood
Atlantic	Linwood
	Lower Pewabic
Baltic Junction
Baraga	Mayflower
Belt Line Junction	Messner
Blue Jacket	Midway
Bootjack	Mills
Boston Junction	Morrisons Spur
Britton Spur	Motley
Brotherton
	Nestor Crossing
Calumet Junction	New Home
Clark	North Kearsarge
Cole Creek	North Tamarack Mine
Concord
Copper Range Junction	Obenhoff
Corbett	Onnela
Craig	Opechee
Crystal Lake	Osceola Mine
	Otter
Danielson
Demmon	Painesdale Junction
Dollar Bay Dock	Phillips
Dow	Point Mills Junction
Dupont Junction	Prickett

Eagle Harbor	Quincy Mine
Eagle River	Quincy
East Houghton	Quinn
Edgemere Junction
Edgemere	Rambaultown
Elm River	Red Jacket Mine
	Redridge Junction
Faleston	Ricedale
Farm
Farnham	Saint Marys Junction
Findley Junction	Shore Line Junction
Florida	Silver
Fouchette	South Kearsarge
Fox	South Lake Linden
Franklin Junction	Stackpole
Franklin Junior Mine	Stantons Spur
Franklin	Stanwood
Freda Park
Frost Junction	Tamarack Mine
	Torch Lake City
Garon	Torch Lake Junction
Glanville
Green	Upper Mills
Grove
Grover	Wolverine Mine
	Woodside
Jones Spur
	Yandell
Kitchie	Yellow Jacket

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Boyds 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.