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Do you know of Melva ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Melva. 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 Melva.<1>

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1901 and closed  in 1915.

Communities Also Named Melva ...

We found one communities that share the name Melva.

Within Michigan, the name Melva is unique.

Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Melva in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Missouri
      • Taney County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Melva [Taney County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Melva ...

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

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)

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

More Orphans in  Benzie County ...

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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 Benzie County.

AchasInland
Allyn 
AlmiraJoyfield
Alpha 
 Kehoe
Bay PointKentville
Bellow's SidingKing
Benway 
BetseyLake Junction
BlakeLake
Bridges 
 Metz
CartersMiller
Case 
CasesOsborn
Clary 
CollisonPearl Lake
CranesPetersville
CrusePlatte River Junction
Crystal CityPlatte
Crystal Lake 
 Sherman's Mill
Empire JunctionStormer
  
GerberTurtle Lake
  
HayesVan Demans
Herring Lake 
Homestead StationWelden
HomesteadWeldon Bridge
HullWeldon Centre
 Willis
Inland Corners 

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>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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