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Do you know of O'Brien ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about O'Brien. 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 O'Brien.

Our source wasn't clear whether O'Brien was 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 O'Brien 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 O'Brien ...

We found twelve communities that share the name O'Brien.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named O'Brien.

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

  • Communities Located In Michigan ...
    • Ontonagon 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 Michigan community of O'Brien [Ontonagon County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Shasta County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of O'Brien [Shasta County].
    • Florida
      • Suwannee County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of O'Brien [Suwannee County].
    • Georgia
      • Glynn 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 Georgia community of O'Brien [Glynn County].
    • Kansas
      • Miami County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of O'Brien [Miami County].
    • Minnesota
      • Stearns 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 Minnesota community of O'Brien [Stearns County].
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of O'Brien.
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of O'Brien.
    • Oregon
      • Josephine County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of O'Brien [Josephine County].
    • Texas
      • Haskell County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of O'Brien [Haskell County].
    • Washington
      • King County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of O'Brien [King County].
    • West Virginia
      • Barbour County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of O'Brien [Barbour 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.

AusterlitzLockwood
Avenue JuncionLogan
 Lorenzo
Ball CreekLowell Station
BallardsLyman
Bostwick 
BowenMadison Square
BowneMalta
BranninMcCords
BristolMill Creek Junction
Burchs MillMill Creek
Burton HeightsMuskegon Junction
Bushs 
ByronNorth Bryon
 North Cannon
Caledonia StationNorth Grand Rapids
Camp LakeNorth Park
ChapelNorthgate
Child's MillNorths Mill
Child's MillsNorthville
Cortland Centre 
CortlandOakdale Park
CrosbyOakdale
CubaOakfield Center
 Orlando Park
Dewey 
DicksonPantlind
 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
Glenwood ForestSeymour Square
Godwin HeightsSeymour
GodwinSilver Lake
GoodingSolvay
GrantSouth Grand Rapids
Grattan CenterSouth Rockford
GriswoldSouthkent
 Spencer's Mill
HammondStewarts
HillcrestSunnyside
Hills and Dales 
HughartTolands
 Tyrone
Indian Creek 
Indiana JunctionUla
Ivanrest 
 Velzy
KelloggsvilleVergennes
Kellys 
 Wentworth
LafayetteWest Carlisle
LaGrangeWest Grand Rapids
LamarWestgate
Leonard HeightsWhitneys
Lincoln LakeWyoming Park

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 O'Brien 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.









 

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