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Do you know of Moorepark ???

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

Our sources for Moorepark (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 Moorepark other than they indicate that Moorepark would be found somewhere in Saint Joseph County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1872 and closed  in 1960.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Moorepark ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Moorepark.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 26/55360   (Place Name: Moorepark)

County: St. Joseph     (FIPS State/County: 26/149)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Saint Joseph 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 Joseph County.

CentervilleLockport
Clear LakeLocks
Colon Junction 
Corey LakeMint
Crotch Lake 
 North Sturgis
Douglass 
 Oakwood Crossing
Edwards Corners 
 Perrin
Fawn River StationPortage Lake
Fish Lake 
Fishers LakeRed Oak
FlorenceReserve
Fort Pleasant 
 Three Rivers Junction
Klinger Lake 
 White Pigeon Junction
Leesburg 

Footnotes ...

<1>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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This page was last modified/updated: 10 Mar 2024