Do you know of The Plaza ???

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

We found mention of The Plaza as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located 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.

Communities Also Named The Plaza ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name The Plaza.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named The Plaza.

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

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Calhoun 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 The Plaza [Calhoun County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - San Bernardino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of The Plaza [San Bernardino County].
- Colorado
  - Rio Grande 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 Colorado community of The Plaza [Rio Grande County].
- Connecticut
  - New Haven 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 Connecticut community of The Plaza [New Haven 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 The Plaza [Marion County].
- Georgia
  - Clayton 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 The Plaza [Clayton County].
- Idaho
  - Gem County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of The Plaza [Gem County].
- Illinois
  - Saint Clair 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 The Plaza [Saint Clair County].
- New Jersey
  - Burlington 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 Jersey community of The Plaza [Burlington County].
  - Hudson County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of The Plaza [Hudson County].
- New Mexico
  - Quay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of The Plaza [Quay County].
- New York
  - Queens 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 York community of The Plaza [Queens County].
- North Dakota
  - Mountrail County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of The Plaza [Mountrail County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Butler 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 The Plaza [Butler County].
- Washington
  - Spokane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of The Plaza [Spokane County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for The Plaza ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about The Plaza:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for The Plaza - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

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 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 The Plaza 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.