Do you know of Hamlet ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hamlet. 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 Hamlet.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Hamlet 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 Hamlet would be found somewhere in Emmet County, Michigan.
Communities Also Named Hamlet ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Hamlet.
Within Michigan, the name Hamlet is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Tallapoosa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Hamlet [Tallapoosa County].
- Arkansas
- Faulkner County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Hamlet [Faulkner County].
- California
- Marin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Hamlet [Marin County].
- Colorado
- Pueblo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Hamlet [Pueblo County].
- Delaware
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Hamlet [Kent County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Hamlet [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Hamlet [Polk County].
- Illinois
- Mercer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Hamlet [Mercer County].
- Indiana
- Starke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Hamlet [Starke County].
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Hamlet [Montgomery County].
- Mississippi
- Jasper County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Hamlet [Jasper County].
- Missouri
- Cedar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Hamlet [Cedar County].
- Nebraska
- Hayes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Hamlet [Hayes County].
- New York
- Chautauqua County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Hamlet [Chautauqua County].
- North Carolina
- Richmond County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hamlet [Richmond County].
- North Dakota
- Williams County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Hamlet [Williams County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Hamlet.
- Oregon
- Clatsop County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Hamlet [Clatsop County].
- Rhode Island
- Providence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Hamlet [Providence County].
- Virginia
- James City County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Hamlet [James City County].
- West Virginia
- Raleigh County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Hamlet [Raleigh County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hamlet ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hamlet:
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 Emmet 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 Emmet 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. |
| <3> | 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 Hamlet 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. |