Do you know of Gilchrist ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Gilchrist. 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 Gilchrist.
We found mention of Gilchrist as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Allegan 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 Gilchrist ...
We found twelve communities that share the name Gilchrist.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Gilchrist.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Mackinac County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Gilchrist [Mackinac County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Mississippi 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 Arkansas community of Gilchrist [Mississippi County].
- Florida
- Charlotte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Gilchrist [Charlotte County].
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Gilchrist [Hillsborough County].
- Illinois
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Gilchrist [Fulton County].
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Gilchrist [Mercer County].
- Minnesota
- Pope 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 Minnesota community of Gilchrist [Pope County].
- Nebraska
- Sioux County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Gilchrist [Sioux County].
- Ontario
- 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 Ontario community of Gilchrist.
- Oregon
- Klamath County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Gilchrist [Klamath County].
- Tennessee
- McNairy County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Gilchrist [McNairy County].
- Texas
- Galveston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Gilchrist [Galveston County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gilchrist ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Gilchrist:
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)
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Gilchrist - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned
More Orphans in Allegan 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 Allegan 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 Gilchrist 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. |