Do you know of Gaines ???

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

We found mention of Gaines as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kent 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.

Communities Also Named Gaines ...

We found eight communities that share the name Gaines.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Gaines.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Genesee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Gaines [Genesee County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Mississippi
  - Leflore 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 Mississippi community of Gaines [Leflore County].
- Missouri
  - Henry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Gaines [Henry County].
- New York
  - Orleans County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Gaines [Orleans County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Tioga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Gaines [Tioga County].
- South Carolina
  - Edgefield 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 South Carolina community of Gaines [Edgefield County].
  - Greenwood 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 South Carolina community of Gaines [Greenwood County].
- West Virginia
  - Upshur County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Gaines [Upshur County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gaines ...

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

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)

Shell Oil Road Map for Michigan (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

More Orphans in Kent 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 Kent County.

Austerlitz	Logan
Avenue Juncion	Lorenzo
	Lowell Station
Ball Creek	Lyman
Ballards
Bostwick	Madison Square
Bowen	Malta
Bowne	McCords
Brannin	Mill Creek Junction
Bristol	Mill Creek
Burchs Mill	Muskegon Junction
Burton Heights
Bushs	North Bryon
Byron	North Cannon
	North Grand Rapids
Caledonia Station	North Park
Camp Lake	Northgate
Chapel	Norths Mill
Child's Mill	Northville
Child's Mills
Cortland Centre	O'Brien
Cortland	Oakdale Park
Crosby	Oakdale
Cuba	Oakfield Center
	Orlando Park
Dewey
Dickson	Pantlind
	Park
Eagle Mills	Paul
Eardly	Plainfield Heights
Eastern Heights	Plaster Creek Junction
Elkerton	Plaster Creek
Elmdale	Pleasant
	Pratt Lake
Fernald
Fisher	Reeds Lake
Flat River	Reeds
Fox Station	Rogers Heights
Fox	Rogers
Franklin
Fuller	Saddlebag Siding
	Saginaw Crossing
Glenwood Forest	Saxon
Godwin Heights	Seymour Square
Godwin	Seymour
Gooding	Silver Lake
Grant	Solvay
Grattan Center	South Grand Rapids
Griswold	South Rockford
	Southkent
Hammond	Spencer's Mill
Hillcrest	Stewarts
Hills and Dales	Sunnyside
Hughart
	Tolands
Indian Creek	Tyrone
Indiana Junction
Ivanrest	Ula

Kelloggsville	Velzy
Kellys	Vergennes

Lafayette	Wentworth
LaGrange	West Carlisle
Lamar	West Grand Rapids
Leonard Heights	Westgate
Lincoln Lake	Whitneys
Lockwood	Wyoming Park

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 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 Gaines 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.