Do you know of Northville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Northville. 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 Northville.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Northville, so we are uncertain whether Northville is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Northville would be found somewhere in Kent County, Michigan.
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 Northville ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Northville.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Northville.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Northville [Wayne County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
- Litchfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Northville [Litchfield County].
- Illinois
- La Salle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Northville [La Salle County].
- Massachusetts
- Plymouth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Northville [Plymouth County].
- Worcester County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Northville [Worcester County].
- New Hampshire
- Sullivan 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 New Hampshire community of Northville [Sullivan County].
- New Jersey
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Northville [Cumberland County].
- New York
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Northville [Fulton County].
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Northville [Suffolk County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Northville.
- Ohio
- Champaign County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Northville [Champaign County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Northville.
- Pennsylvania
- Erie 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 Northville [Erie County].
- South Dakota
- Spink County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Northville [Spink County].
- Tennessee
- Cumberland 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 Tennessee community of Northville [Cumberland County].
More Orphans in Kent 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 Kent 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 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 Northville 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. |