Do you know of Huron ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Huron. 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 Huron.
Our sources for Huron (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Huron other than they indicate that Huron would be found somewhere in Huron County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1883 and closed in 1905.
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 Huron ...
We found 22 communities that share the name Huron.
There are two communities within Michigan that are also named Huron.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Huron [Saint Clair County].
- Wayne County
- Saint Clair County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Yavapai County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Huron [Yavapai County].
- Arkansas
- Izard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Huron [Izard County].
- California
- Fresno County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Huron [Fresno County].
- Georgia
- Putnam County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Huron [Putnam County].
- Indiana
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Huron [Lawrence County].
- Iowa
- Des Moines County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Huron [Des Moines County].
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Saint Martin Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Huron [Saint Martin Parish].
- Mississippi
- Amite County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Huron [Amite County].
- Missouri
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Huron [Polk County].
- New York
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Huron [Wayne County].
- Ohio
- Erie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Huron [Erie County].
- Oregon
- Umatilla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Huron [Umatilla County].
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Huron [Fayette County].
- South Dakota
- Beadle County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Huron [Beadle County].
- Tennessee
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Huron [Henderson County].
- Texas
- Hill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Huron [Hill County].
- Wisconsin
- Chippewa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Huron [Chippewa County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Huron ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Huron:
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)
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Huron - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Huron 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 Huron 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Huron 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/ |