Do you know of Oaklawn ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Oaklawn, so we are uncertain whether Oaklawn 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 Oaklawn would be found somewhere in Ottawa 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 Oaklawn ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Oaklawn.

Within Michigan, the name Oaklawn is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Desha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Oaklawn [Desha County].
  - Garland 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 Arkansas community of Oaklawn [Garland County].
- Florida
  - Marion 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 Florida community of Oaklawn [Marion County].
- Georgia
  - Brooks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Oaklawn [Brooks County].
  - Coweta County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Oaklawn [Coweta County].
  - Houston 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 Oaklawn [Houston County].
- Illinois
  - Vermilion 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 Illinois community of Oaklawn [Vermilion County].
- Kansas
  - Sedgwick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Oaklawn [Sedgwick County].
- Louisiana
  - Saint Mary Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Oaklawn [Saint Mary Parish].
  - Saint Tammany Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Oaklawn [Saint Tammany Parish].
- Maryland
  - Prince George's County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Oaklawn [Prince George's County].
- Mississippi
  - Claiborne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Oaklawn [Claiborne County].
- Oregon
  - Clackamas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Oaklawn [Clackamas County].
- Rhode Island
  - Providence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Oaklawn [Providence County].
- South Carolina
  - Sumter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Oaklawn [Sumter County].
- Tennessee
  - Cheatham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Oaklawn [Cheatham County].
  - Putnam County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Oaklawn [Putnam County].
  - Shelby County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Oaklawn [Shelby County].
- Virginia
  - Culpeper County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Oaklawn [Culpeper County].

More Orphans in Ottawa 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 Ottawa County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Oaklawn 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.