Do you know of Maywood ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Maywood. 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 Maywood.
We found mention of Maywood as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Iron 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 1900 and closed in 1903.
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 Maywood ...
We found 23 communities that share the name Maywood.
There are two communities within Michigan that are also named Maywood.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, 22 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Delta County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Maywood [Delta County].
- Macomb County
- Delta County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Maywood [Los Angeles County].
- Illinois
- Cook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Maywood [Cook County].
- Indiana
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Maywood [Marion County].
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Maywood [Lincoln County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- DeSoto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Maywood [DeSoto County].
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Frontier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Maywood [Frontier County].
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Clermont County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Maywood [Clermont County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Maywood.
- Oregon
- Lane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Maywood [Lane County].
- South Dakota
- Hanson County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Maywood [Hanson County].
- Washington
- King County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Maywood [King County].
- West Virginia
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Maywood [Fayette County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Maywood ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Maywood:
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)
More Orphans in Iron 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 Iron 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 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 Maywood 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/ |