Do you know of Great Western ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Great Western. 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 Great Western.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Great Western was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Great Western would be found somewhere in Iron County, Michigan.
Communities Also Named Great Western ...
We found one communities that share the name Great Western.
Within Michigan, the name Great Western is unique.
Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Great Western in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Ohio
- Belmont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Great Western [Belmont County].
- Ohio
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Great Western ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Great Western:
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)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Great Western.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 26/34700 (Place Name: Great Western)
County: Iron (FIPS State/County: 26/071)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Great Western) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Iron 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 Iron County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |