Do you know of Falls ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Falls. 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 Falls.
We found mention of Falls as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Ontonagon 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 1895 and closed in 1896.
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 Falls ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Falls.
Within Michigan, the name Falls is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Falls.
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Falls.
- Georgia
- Hall County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Falls [Hall County].
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Maine
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Falls [Baltimore County].
- Massachusetts
- New York
- Niagara County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Falls [Niagara County].
- Tompkins County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Falls [Tompkins County].
- North Carolina
- Wake County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Falls [Wake County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Falls.
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Falls [Philadelphia County].
- Wyoming County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Falls [Wyoming County].
- Virginia
- Nottoway County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Falls [Nottoway County].
- Stafford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Falls [Stafford County].
- West Virginia
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Falls [Grant County].
- Alaska
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Falls ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Falls:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
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)
More Orphans in Ontonagon 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 Ontonagon 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 Falls 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |