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Do you know of Kellogg ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Kellogg. 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 Kellogg.

Our sources for Kellogg (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 Kellogg other than they indicate that Kellogg would be found somewhere in Allegan County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1884 and closed  in 1906.

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 Kellogg ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Kellogg.

Within Michigan, the name Kellogg is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Sonoma County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Kellogg [Sonoma County].
    • Connecticut
      • Hartford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Kellogg [Hartford County].
    • Georgia
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Kellogg [Douglas County].
    • Idaho
      • Shoshone County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Kellogg [Shoshone County].
    • Illinois
      • Randolph County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Kellogg [Randolph County].
    • Iowa
      • Jasper County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Kellogg [Jasper County].
    • Kansas
      • Cowley County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Kellogg [Cowley County].
    • Louisiana
      • Saint Charles Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Kellogg [Saint Charles Parish].
    • Minnesota
      • Wabasha County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Kellogg [Wabasha County].
    • Missouri
      • Macon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Kellogg [Macon County].
    • New York
      • Erie 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 New York community of Kellogg [Erie County].
      • Saint Lawrence County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Kellogg [Saint Lawrence County].
    • North Dakota
      • Walsh County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Kellogg [Walsh County].
    • Oregon
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Kellogg [Douglas County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bradford County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Kellogg [Bradford County].
    • Texas
      • Hunt County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Kellogg [Hunt County].
    • West Virginia
      • Wayne 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 West Virginia community of Kellogg [Wayne County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kellogg ...

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

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 Kellogg - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

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

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Kellogg.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 26/42580   (Place Name: Kellogg)

County: Allegan     (FIPS State/County: 26/005)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Kellogg) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Allegan 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 Allegan County.

AbroniaJob
Argenta 
AvisLake Shore
  
Base Line LakeManlius
BelknapMay
Black RiverMiner Lake
BowenMonteith
 Monterey
CheshireMontieth Junction
ClydeMontieth
  
DosterNew Casco
Doty 
Duck LakeOsterhout Lake
Dumont Lake 
DunningPeach Belt
 Pine Lake
Fenn's Mills 
Fillmore CentreRabbit River
FiskRichmond
  
GilchristShelby
Gun MarshSherman
 Silver Creek
Herps 
HoopertownWells
Hopkins StationWest Casco
HorseshoeWest Watson
  

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 Kellogg 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/









 

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