Do you know of Eagle River ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Eagle River. 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 River.

We found mention of Eagle River 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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1845 and closed  in 1861.

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 Eagle River ...

We found five communities that share the name Eagle River.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Eagle River.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

• Communities Located In Michigan ...
  • Keweenaw County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Eagle River [Keweenaw County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Alaska
    • Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Eagle River.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Eagle River.
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Eagle River.
  • Wisconsin
    • Vilas County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Eagle River [Vilas County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Eagle River ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Houghton 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 Houghton County.