Do you know of Doherty ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Doherty. 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 Doherty.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Doherty 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 Doherty would be found somewhere in Isabella County, Michigan.
Communities Also Named Doherty ...
We found three communities that share the name Doherty.
Within Michigan, the name Doherty is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, one is located in the United States and the other two communities are located in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Doherty ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Doherty:
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
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More Orphans in Isabella 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 Isabella 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. |