Do you know of Dellwood ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dellwood. 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 Dellwood.
Our sources for Dellwood (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 Dellwood other than they indicate that Dellwood would be found somewhere in Eaton County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1882 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 Dellwood ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Dellwood.
Within Michigan, the name Dellwood is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 23 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Dellwood [Saint Clair County].
- Florida
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Dellwood [Jackson County].
- Leon 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 Florida community of Dellwood [Leon County].
- Pinellas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Dellwood [Pinellas County].
- Georgia
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Dellwood [Anne Arundel County].
- Minnesota
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Dellwood [Washington County].
- Missouri
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Dellwood [Saint Louis County].
- New York
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Dellwood [Erie County].
- North Carolina
- Haywood County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dellwood [Haywood County].
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dellwood [Henderson County].
- Pitt County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dellwood [Pitt County].
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dellwood [Charleston County].
- Greenville County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dellwood [Greenville County].
- Pickens County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Dellwood [Pickens County].
- Tennessee
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Dellwood [Blount County].
- Virginia
- Hanover County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Dellwood [Hanover County].
- Wisconsin
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dellwood ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dellwood:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Dellwood - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
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.
| Alperos | |
| Olivet Station | |
| Bismarck | Oneida |
| Brockway | |
| Riverwood | |
| Clay | Roxana |
| Delta | Sevastapol |
| Shepards | |
| Hope | |
| Wallis | |
| Lime Siding | West Grand Ledge |
| Windsor | |
| Moores |
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 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 Dellwood 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/ |