Do you know of Cranberry Junction ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cranberry Junction. 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 Cranberry Junction.<1>

Our sources wasn't clear whether Cranberry Junction 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 Cranberry Junction would be found somewhere in Ontonagon County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named Cranberry Junction ...

We found one communities that share the name Cranberry Junction.

Within Michigan, the name Cranberry Junction is unique.

Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Cranberry Junction in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Cranberry Junction.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cranberry Junction ...

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

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)

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in Ontonagon 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 Ontonagon 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.