Do you know of Clarence ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Clarence. 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 Clarence.
Our sources for Clarence (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 Clarence other than they indicate that Clarence would be found somewhere in Clare County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1893 and closed in 1926.
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 Clarence ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Clarence.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Clarence.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Clarence [Blount County].
- Illinois
- Ford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Clarence [Ford County].
- Iowa
- Cedar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Clarence [Cedar County].
- Kansas
- Barton 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 Kansas community of Clarence [Barton County].
- Cowley County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Clarence [Cowley County].
- Stevens County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Clarence [Stevens County].
- Kentucky
- Pulaski County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clarence [Pulaski County].
- Louisiana
- Natchitoches Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Clarence [Natchitoches Parish].
- Missouri
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Clarence [Shelby County].
- New York
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Clarence [Erie County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Clarence.
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Clarence.
- Pennsylvania
- Centre County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Clarence [Centre County].
- South Carolina
- West Virginia
- Roane County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Clarence [Roane County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clarence ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Clarence:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Clare 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 Clare 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 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 Clarence 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/ |