Do you know of Petersville ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Petersville 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 Petersville would be found somewhere in Benzie 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 Petersville ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Petersville.

Within Michigan, the name Petersville is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Lauderdale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Petersville [Lauderdale County].
- Alaska
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Petersville.
- Illinois
  - Mercer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Petersville [Mercer County].
- Indiana
  - Bartholomew County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Petersville [Bartholomew County].
- Iowa
  - Clinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Petersville [Clinton County].
- Kentucky
  - Lewis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Petersville [Lewis County].
- Maryland
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Petersville [Frederick County].
- Missouri
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Petersville [Franklin County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Petersville.
- North Carolina
  - Davidson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Petersville [Davidson County].
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Petersville.
- Pennsylvania
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Petersville [Butler County].
  - Northampton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Petersville [Northampton County].
- Texas
  - DeWitt County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Petersville [DeWitt County].
- Wisconsin
  - Waupaca County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Petersville [Waupaca County].

More Orphans in Benzie 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 Benzie 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 Petersville 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.