Do you know of Eagle Harbor ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Eagle Harbor. 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 Eagle Harbor.<1>
We found mention of Eagle Harbor as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Houghton County, Michigan.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1847 and closed in 1861.
Communities Also Named Eagle Harbor ...
We found four communities that share the name Eagle Harbor.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Eagle Harbor.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Keweenaw County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Eagle Harbor [Keweenaw County].
- Keweenaw County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Eagle Harbor.
- Maryland
- Prince George's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Eagle Harbor [Prince George's County].
- New York
- Orleans County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Eagle Harbor [Orleans County].
- Alaska
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Eagle Harbor ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Eagle Harbor:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
More Orphans in Houghton 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 Houghton 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> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |