Do you know of Gridley ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Gridley. 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 Gridley.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Gridley 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 Gridley would be found somewhere in Schoolcraft County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named Gridley ...

We found eight communities that share the name Gridley.

Within Michigan, the name Gridley is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Van Buren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Gridley [Van Buren County].
- California
  - Butte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Gridley [Butte County].
- Illinois
  - McLean County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Gridley [McLean County].
- Indiana
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Gridley [Madison County].
- Iowa
  - Emmet County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Gridley [Emmet County].
- Kansas
  - Coffey County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Gridley [Coffey County].
- Mississippi
  - Jasper County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Gridley [Jasper County].
- Missouri
  - DeKalb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Gridley [DeKalb County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gridley ...

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

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 Schoolcraft 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 Schoolcraft 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.