Do you know of Miller ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Miller. 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 Miller.
Our sources for Miller (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 Miller other than they indicate that Miller would be found somewhere in Montcalm County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1889 and closed in 1916.
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 Miller ...
We found 56 communities that share the name Miller.
There are six communities within Michigan that are also named Miller.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 50 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 50 communities, 55 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Alger County
- Benzie County
- Kalamazoo County
- Mecosta County
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Miller [Saint Clair County].
- Wexford County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Benton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Miller [Benton County].
- Cleburne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Miller [Cleburne County].
- Greene County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Miller [Greene County].
- Little River 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 Miller [Little River County].
- California
- Marin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Miller [Marin County].
- Mendocino 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 California community of Miller [Mendocino County].
- Santa Clara County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Miller [Santa Clara County].
- Florida
- Union County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Miller [Union County].
- Illinois
- Saint Clair County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Miller [Saint Clair County].
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Miller [Hancock County].
- Kansas
- Bourbon 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 Miller [Bourbon County].
- Douglas 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 Miller [Douglas County].
- Lyon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Miller [Lyon County].
- Morris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Miller [Morris County].
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Allegany County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Miller [Allegany County].
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- DeSoto County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Miller [DeSoto County].
- Missouri
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Miller [Lawrence County].
- Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Miller [Saint Louis County].
- Stoddard County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Miller [Stoddard County].
- Montana
- Missoula County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Miller [Missoula County].
- Nebraska
- Buffalo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Miller [Buffalo County].
- New Mexico
- Cibola County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Miller [Cibola County].
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma community of Miller [Oklahoma County].
- Pushmataha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Miller [Pushmataha County].
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Cameron 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 Pennsylvania community of Miller [Cameron County].
- Northampton 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 Pennsylvania community of Miller [Northampton County].
- South Dakota
- Hand County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Miller [Hand County].
- Meade 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 South Dakota community of Miller [Meade County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Loudoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Miller [Loudoun County].
- Wyoming
- Albany County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Miller [Albany County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Miller ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Miller:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Miller - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
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 ...
| <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 Miller 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/ |