Do you know of Lena ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lena. 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 Lena.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Lena 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 Lena would be found somewhere in Marquette County, Michigan.
Communities Also Named Lena ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Lena.
Within Michigan, the name Lena is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Stephenson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lena [Stephenson County].
- Indiana
- Clay County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lena [Clay County].
- Iowa
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Lena [Webster County].
- Louisiana
- Rapides Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Lena [Rapides Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Lena.
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Leake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Lena [Leake County].
- Nebraska
- New York
- Otsego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lena [Otsego County].
- North Carolina
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lena [Cumberland County].
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Morrow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Lena [Morrow County].
- South Carolina
- Hampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lena [Hampton County].
- Texas
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lena [Fayette County].
- Wisconsin
- Oconto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Lena [Oconto County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lena ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lena:
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 Marquette 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 Marquette 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 Lena 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. |