Do you know of Genoa ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Genoa. 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 Genoa.
We found mention of Genoa as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Livingston 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.
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 Genoa ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Genoa.
Within Michigan, the name Genoa is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Miller County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Genoa [Miller County].
- Colorado
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Genoa [Lincoln County].
- Florida
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Genoa [Hamilton County].
- Illinois
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Genoa [DeKalb County].
- Iowa
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Genoa [Wayne County].
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- Nance County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Genoa [Nance County].
- Nevada
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Genoa [Douglas County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- Cayuga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Genoa [Cayuga County].
- North Carolina
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Genoa [Wayne County].
- North Dakota
- McHenry County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Genoa [McHenry County].
- Ohio
- South Carolina
- Marlboro County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Genoa [Marlboro County].
- Texas
- Harris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Genoa [Harris County].
- Virginia
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Genoa [Rockingham County].
- West Virginia
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Genoa [Wayne County].
- Wisconsin
- Vernon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Genoa [Vernon County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Genoa ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Genoa:
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)
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Livingston 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 Livingston 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Genoa 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. |