Do you know of Derry ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Derry. 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 Derry.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Derry 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 Derry would be found somewhere in Wexford County, Michigan.
Communities Also Named Derry ...
We found ten communities that share the name Derry.
Within Michigan, the name Derry is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Natchitoches Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Derry [Natchitoches Parish].
- Missouri
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Derry [Rockingham County].
- New Mexico
- Sierra County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Derry [Sierra County].
- Oregon
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Derry [Polk County].
- Pennsylvania
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Derry [Columbia County].
- Dauphin County
- 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 Pennsylvania community of Derry [Dauphin County].
- Montour 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 Pennsylvania community of Derry [Montour County].
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Derry [Westmoreland County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Derry ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Derry:
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 Wexford 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 Wexford 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 Derry 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. |