Do you know of Fairbanks ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fairbanks. 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 Fairbanks.
Our source wasn't clear whether Fairbanks was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Fairbanks would be found somewhere in Otsego County, Michigan.
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 Fairbanks ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Fairbanks.
There are two communities within Michigan that are also named Fairbanks.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, 22 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Kalkaska County
- Oakland County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Fairbanks.
- Arkansas
- Van Buren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Fairbanks [Van Buren County].
- California
- El Dorado County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fairbanks [El Dorado County].
- Florida
- Alachua County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Fairbanks [Alachua County].
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Moultrie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fairbanks [Moultrie County].
- Indiana
- Sullivan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Fairbanks [Sullivan County].
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Ouachita Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Fairbanks [Ouachita Parish].
- Maine
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Fairbanks [Franklin County].
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Fairbanks [Saint Louis County].
- New Mexico
- Chaves County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Fairbanks [Chaves County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Fairbanks.
- Oregon
- Wasco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Fairbanks [Wasco County].
- Pennsylvania
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairbanks [Westmoreland County].
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Harris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fairbanks [Harris County].
- Vermont
- Caledonia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Fairbanks [Caledonia County].
- Washington
- Whitman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Fairbanks [Whitman County].
- West Virginia
- Braxton County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Fairbanks [Braxton County].
- Alaska
More Orphans in Otsego 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 Otsego County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Fairbanks 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. |