Do you know of Glencoe ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Glencoe. 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 Glencoe.
We found mention of Glencoe as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Bay 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 1876 and closed in 1878.
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 Glencoe ...
We found 35 communities that share the name Glencoe.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Glencoe.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 34 communities, 31 are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Huron County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Glencoe [Huron County].
- Huron County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Glencoe [Fulton County].
- California
- Calaveras County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Glencoe [Calaveras County].
- Colorado
- Florida
- Volusia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Glencoe [Volusia County].
- Georgia
- Camden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Glencoe [Camden County].
- Idaho
- Bear Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Glencoe [Bear Lake County].
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Glencoe [Cook County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Glencoe [Gallatin County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Mary Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Glencoe [Saint Mary Parish].
- Maryland
- Minnesota
- McLeod County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Glencoe [McLeod County].
- Missouri
- Saint Louis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Glencoe [Saint Louis County].
- Nebraska
- Dodge County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Glencoe [Dodge County].
- Nevada
- White Pine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Glencoe [White Pine County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Glencoe.
- New Mexico
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Glencoe [Lincoln County].
- North Carolina
- Alamance County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Glencoe [Alamance County].
- Pender 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 North Carolina community of Glencoe [Pender County].
- North Dakota
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Glencoe.
- Ohio
- Belmont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Glencoe [Belmont County].
- Hamilton 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 Ohio community of Glencoe [Hamilton County].
- Oklahoma
- Payne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Glencoe [Payne County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Glencoe.
- Oregon
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Glencoe [Washington County].
- Pennsylvania
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Glencoe [Somerset County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Glencoe.
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Buffalo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Glencoe [Buffalo County].
- Wyoming
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Glencoe [Lincoln County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Glencoe ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Glencoe:
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 Bay 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 Bay 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 Glencoe 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/ |