Do you know of Maple Hill ???

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

Our sources for Maple Hill (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Maple Hill other than they indicate that Maple Hill would be found somewhere in Montcalm County, Michigan.

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 Maple Hill ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Maple Hill.

Within Michigan, the name Maple Hill is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Maple Hill [Madison County].
- Connecticut
  - Hartford 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 Connecticut community of Maple Hill [Hartford County].
- Iowa
  - Emmet County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Maple Hill [Emmet County].
- Kansas
  - Wabaunsee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Maple Hill [Wabaunsee County].
- Minnesota
  - Cook County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Maple Hill [Cook County].
- Missouri
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Maple Hill [Clinton County].
- Nebraska
  - Douglas 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 Nebraska community of Maple Hill [Douglas County].
- New York
  - Oswego County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Maple Hill [Oswego County].
  - Ulster County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Maple Hill [Ulster County].
- North Carolina
  - Pender County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Maple Hill [Pender County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Maple Hill.
- Pennsylvania
  - Lycoming County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Maple Hill [Lycoming County].
  - Schuylkill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Maple Hill [Schuylkill County].
  - Tioga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Maple Hill [Tioga County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Maple Hill.
- Tennessee
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Maple Hill [Sullivan County].
  - Wilson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Maple Hill [Wilson County].
- Virginia
  - Lynchburg City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Maple Hill [Lynchburg City].
  - Suffolk City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Maple Hill [Suffolk City].
- Wisconsin
  - Chippewa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Maple Hill [Chippewa County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Maple Hill ...

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

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 Maple Hill - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Maple Hill.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 26/51100 (Place Name: Maple Hill)

County: Montcalm (FIPS State/County: 26/117)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Maple Hill) 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 Montcalm 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 Montcalm County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Maple Hill 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.