Do you know of Ceylon ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 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 Ceylon ...

We found seven communities that share the name Ceylon.

Within Michigan, the name Ceylon is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, five are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Georgia
    • Camden County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Ceylon [Camden County].
  • Indiana
    • Adams County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Ceylon [Adams County].
  • Minnesota
    • Martin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Ceylon [Martin County].
  • Ohio
    • Erie County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Ceylon [Erie County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Ceylon.
  • Pennsylvania
    • Greene County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Ceylon [Greene County].
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Ceylon.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ceylon ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ceylon - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Barry 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 Barry County.