Do you know of North Branch ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether North Branch was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that North Branch would be found somewhere in Bay County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named North Branch ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name North Branch.

There are three communities within Michigan that are also named North Branch.

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

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Alcona County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of North Branch [Alcona County].
- Lapeer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of North Branch [Lapeer County].
- Oscoda County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of North Branch [Oscoda County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Calaveras County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of North Branch [Calaveras County].
- Iowa
  - Guthrie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of North Branch [Guthrie County].
- Kentucky
  - Carter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of North Branch [Carter County].
- Maryland
  - Allegany County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of North Branch [Allegany County].
  - Baltimore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of North Branch [Baltimore County].
- Minnesota
  - Chisago County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of North Branch [Chisago County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of North Branch.
- New Hampshire
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of North Branch [Hillsborough County].
- New Jersey
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of North Branch [Somerset County].
- New York
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of North Branch [Sullivan County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of North Branch.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of North Branch.
- Pennsylvania
  - McKean County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of North Branch [McKean County].
  - Susquehanna 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 North Branch [Susquehanna County].
- Wisconsin
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of North Branch [Jackson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North Branch ...

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

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 Bay 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 Bay County.

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>	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.
<3>	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 North Branch 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.