Do you know of Florida ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Florida, so we are uncertain whether Florida is 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 Florida would be found somewhere in Houghton 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 Florida ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Florida.

Within Michigan, the name Florida is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
  - La Plata County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Florida [La Plata County].
- Illinois
  - Randolph 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 Illinois community of Florida [Randolph County].
- Indiana
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Florida [Madison County].
- Massachusetts
  - Berkshire County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Florida [Berkshire County].
- Missouri
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Florida [Monroe County].
- New Mexico
  - Dona Ana 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 Mexico community of Florida [Dona Ana County].
  - Luna County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Florida [Luna County].
  - Socorro County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Florida [Socorro County].
- New York
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Florida [Orange County].
- Ohio
  - Henry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Florida [Henry County].
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Florida [Knox County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Florida.

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.

Ahmeek Mill
Albion	Laird
Allouez Mine	Lake Gerald
Arcadian Junction	Lake Junction
Arcadian Mine	Lakewood
Atlantic	Linwood
	Lower Pewabic
Baltic Junction
Baraga	Mayflower
Belt Line Junction	Messner
Blue Jacket	Midway
Bootjack	Mills
Boston Junction	Morrisons Spur
Boyds	Motley
Britton Spur
Brotherton	Nestor Crossing
	New Home
Calumet Junction	North Kearsarge
Clark	North Tamarack Mine
Cole Creek
Concord	Obenhoff
Copper Range Junction	Onnela
Corbett	Opechee
Craig	Osceola Mine
Crystal Lake	Otter

Danielson	Painesdale Junction
Demmon	Phillips
Dollar Bay Dock	Point Mills Junction
Dow	Prickett
Dupont Junction
	Quincy Mine
Eagle Harbor	Quincy
Eagle River	Quinn
East Houghton
Edgemere Junction	Rambaultown
Edgemere	Red Jacket Mine
Elm River	Redridge Junction
	Ricedale
Faleston
Farm	Saint Marys Junction
Farnham	Shore Line Junction
Findley Junction	Silver
Fouchette	South Kearsarge
Fox	South Lake Linden
Franklin Junction	Stackpole
Franklin Junior Mine	Stantons Spur
Franklin	Stanwood
Freda Park
Frost Junction	Tamarack Mine
	Torch Lake City
Garon	Torch Lake Junction
Glanville
Green	Upper Mills
Grove
Grover	Wolverine Mine
	Woodside
Jones Spur
	Yandell
Kitchie	Yellow Jacket

Footnotes ...

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Florida 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.