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Do you know of Ensel ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ensel. 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 Ensel.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Ensel 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 Ensel would be found somewhere in Ingham County, Michigan.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ensel ...

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

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)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Ensel.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 26/26100   (Place Name: Ensel)

County: Ingham     (FIPS State/County: 26/065)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Ensel) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Ingham 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 Ingham County.

AlaiedonLeroy
AlversonLocke
  
Cedar BendMaple Grove
Chapins 
Chicago JunctionPhelpstown
College FarmPine Lake
  
DanaRavenswood
DelhiRed Bridge
 Reo Junction
Frandor 
 Sanford
GroesbeckSouth Lansing
  
HarrisTower Gardens
Haslett ParkTrowbridge
Hazlett Park 
 Underwood
InghamUrbandale
  
KilwinningWardcliff
KlinkWilliamstown
 Windemere
Lake LansingWinfield

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.