Do you know of Clay ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Clay. 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 Clay.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Clay was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Clay would be found somewhere in Eaton County, Michigan.
Communities Also Named Clay ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Clay.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Clay.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Clay [Jefferson County].
- Arkansas
- White County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Clay [White County].
- California
- Sacramento County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Clay [Sacramento County].
- Colorado
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Clay [Jefferson County].
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Clay [Webster County].
- Louisiana
- Jackson Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Clay [Jackson Parish].
- Mississippi
- Itawamba County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Clay [Itawamba County].
- Missouri
- New York
- Onondaga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Clay [Onondaga County].
- North Carolina
- Granville County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Clay [Granville County].
- Ohio
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Clay [Jackson County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Clay [Lancaster County].
- Tennessee
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Clay [Shelby County].
- Texas
- Burleson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Clay [Burleson County].
- Virginia
- Bedford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Clay [Bedford County].
- Lynchburg City
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Clay [Lynchburg City].
- West Virginia
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Clay [Clay County].
- Wyoming
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clay ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Clay:
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)
More Orphans in Eaton 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 Eaton County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Clay 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. |