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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Chippewa Station. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Chippewa Station to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Chippewa Station, please Contact Us.

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Chippewa Station (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Chippewa Station. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Although our information shows that the community of Chippewa Station is historic, it would have been located within present day Osceola County.

To see how the shape of Michigan's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Osceola County: Clare, Isabella, Lake, Mecosta, Missaukee, Newaygo & Wexford.

Below are the counties that are near Chippewa Station. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Chippewa Station:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Chippewa Station, see our County-by-County Page for Chippewa Station.

Cemeteries Near Chippewa Station ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chippewa Station.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Chippewa Station - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Chippewa Station covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Chippewa Station, with the one closest to Chippewa Station listed first.

  • Orient Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Orient Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Orient Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Osceola County Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Osceola County Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Osceola County Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Garfield Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Garfield Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Garfield Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Garfield Twp. Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Sylvan Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sylvan Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sylvan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Forest Hill Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Fork Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fork Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fork Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Freeman Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Freeman Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Freeman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • South Evart Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Evart Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the South Evart Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Brown Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brown Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brown Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Odd Fellows Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Odd Fellows Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Odd Fellows Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • North Brinton Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
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    • Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Church Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Church Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Sparks Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sparks Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sparks Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.

Chippewa Station itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a population of 55 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Chippewa Station, with the one closest to Chippewa Station listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Chippewa Station. See our List of 1890's Communities around Chippewa Station.

Newspapers Published in Chippewa Station ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 102 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chippewa Station.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chippewa Station, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chippewa Station.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Chippewa Station:

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Chippewa Station, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<6>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Chippewa Station) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chippewa Station. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8802, Longitude: -85.1121