Do you know of Harwood ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Harwood. 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 Harwood.
We found mention of Harwood as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Muskegon 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 1869 and closed in 1871.
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 Harwood ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Harwood.
Within Michigan, the name Harwood is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Chicot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Harwood [Chicot County].
- Florida
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Vanderburgh County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Harwood [Vanderburgh County].
- Kansas
- Haskell 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 Kansas community of Harwood [Haskell County].
- Seward County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Harwood [Seward County].
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Harwood [Anne Arundel County].
- Massachusetts
- Missouri
- Vernon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Harwood [Vernon County].
- North Dakota
- Cass County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Harwood [Cass County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Luzerne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Harwood [Luzerne County].
- Texas
- Gonzales County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Harwood [Gonzales County].
- Washington
- Yakima County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Harwood [Yakima County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Harwood ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Harwood:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Muskegon 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 Muskegon 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Harwood 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/ |