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Welcome to Port Oneida ...

So far, we found very little information about Port Oneida. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Port Oneida to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Port Oneida, please Contact Us.


Port Oneida would have been located within present day Leelanau County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Port Oneida, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886.

A typical abbreviation for Port Oneida: Prt. Oneida

While the community is gone, the present day location for Port Oneida is 620 feet [189 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Port Oneida was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel west from Port Oneida, you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

The Area Code where Port Oneida was located: 231

Communities near Port Oneida ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Port Oneida.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Port Oneida. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Port Oneida.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Port Oneida. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Port Oneida.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Port Oneida. See our Newspapers Page for Port Oneida.

Adding Port Oneida to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Port Oneida in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Port Oneida was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Port Oneida post office opened in 1886. The Port Oneida post office closed in 1905.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Port Oneida.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Port Oneida, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Michigan's counties, including Leelanau, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Port Oneida - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/