Do you know of Lexington ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lexington. 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 Lexington.
We found mention of Lexington as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Saint Clair 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 1846 and closed in 1848.
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 Lexington ...
We found 43 communities that share the name Lexington.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Lexington.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 42 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 42 communities, 42 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Sanilac County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lexington [Sanilac County].
- Sanilac County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Lauderdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Lexington [Lauderdale County].
- Arkansas
- Stone 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 Arkansas community of Lexington [Stone County].
- Van Buren 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 Arkansas community of Lexington [Van Buren County].
- California
- Santa Clara County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Lexington [Santa Clara County].
- Georgia
- Oglethorpe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lexington [Oglethorpe County].
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Brown 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 Lexington [Brown County].
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lexington [Clark County].
- Johnson 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 Lexington [Johnson County].
- Osage 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 Lexington [Osage County].
- Kentucky
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lexington [Fayette County].
- Maine
- Somerset County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Lexington [Somerset County].
- Massachusetts
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Lexington [Middlesex County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Holmes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Lexington [Holmes County].
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Dawson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Lexington [Dawson County].
- New York
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lexington [Greene County].
- North Carolina
- Davidson County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lexington [Davidson County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Lexington.
- Ohio
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lexington [Monroe County].
- Noble County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lexington [Noble County].
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lexington [Richland County].
- Stark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lexington [Stark County].
- Oklahoma
- Cleveland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Lexington [Cleveland County].
- Oregon
- Morrow County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Lexington [Morrow County].
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Lexington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lexington [Lexington County].
- Tennessee
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lexington [Henderson County].
- Texas
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lexington [Lee County].
- Virginia
- Albemarle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Lexington [Albemarle County].
- Lexington City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Lexington [Lexington City].
- Rockbridge 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 Virginia community of Lexington [Rockbridge County].
- Washington
- Cowlitz County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lexington [Cowlitz County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lexington ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lexington:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Saint Clair 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 Saint Clair 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 Lexington 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/ |