RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Michigan >> Kent County >> NorthvilleSitemap...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
Michigan


The Commemorative Quarter for Michigan







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.<1>

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.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Northville would be found somewhere in Kent County, Michigan.

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.<3> 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.<3> 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.<3> 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.

AshleyLogan
AusterlitzLoomisville
Avenue JuncionLorenzo
 Lowell Station
Ball CreekLyman
Ballards 
BostwickMadison Square
BowenMalta
BowneMcCords
BracevilleMill Creek Junction
BranninMill Creek
BristolMuskegon Junction
Brownville 
Burchs MillNelson
Burton HeightsNorth Brownville
BushsNorth Bryon
ByronNorth Cannon
 North Grand Rapids
Caledonia StationNorth Park
Camp LakeNorthgate
ChapelNorths Mill
Child's Mill 
Child's MillsO'Brien
Cortland CentreOakdale Park
CortlandOakdale
CrosbyOakfield Center
CubaOrlando Park
  
DeweyPantlind
DicksonParis
 Park
Eagle MillsPaul
EardlyPlainfield Heights
Eastern HeightsPlaster Creek Junction
ElkertonPlaster Creek
ElmdalePleasant
 Pratt Lake
Fernald 
FisherReeds Lake
Flat RiverReeds
Fox StationRogers Heights
FoxRogers
Franklin 
FullerSaddlebag Siding
 Saginaw Crossing
GainesSaxon
GainesvilleSeymour Square
Glenwood ForestSeymour
Godwin HeightsSilver Lake
GodwinSlayton
GoodingSolvay
GrahamvilleSomerville
GrantSouth Grand Rapids
Grattan CenterSouth Rockford
GriswoldSouth Sparta
 Southkent
HammondSpencer's Mill
Harris CreekStewarts
HillcrestSunnyside
Hills and Dales 
HughartTolands
 Tyrone
Indian Creek 
Indiana JunctionUla
Ivanrest 
 Velzy
KelloggsvilleVergennes
Kellys 
 Wentworth
LafayetteWest Carlisle
LaGrangeWest Grand Rapids
LamarWestgate
Leonard HeightsWhite Swan
Lincoln LakeWhitneys
LockwoodWyoming Park

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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.









 

Copyright 2025
All Rights Reserved

Thank you for visiting our website.

In closing, please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write: Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified/updated: 28 Apr 2025