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

Our sources wasn't clear whether Johannesburg Junction 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 Johannesburg Junction would be found somewhere in Otsego County, Michigan.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Johannesburg Junction ...

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

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)

Michigan Central Railroad Time Tables (July 1912)
Published by Michigan Central Railroad

More Orphans in Otsego County ...

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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 Otsego 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.