Do you know of Prairie Farm ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Prairie Farm. 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 Prairie Farm.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Prairie Farm was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Prairie Farm would be found somewhere in Saginaw County, Michigan.
Communities Also Named Prairie Farm ...
We found one communities that share the name Prairie Farm.
Within Michigan, the name Prairie Farm is unique.
Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Prairie Farm in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Wisconsin
- Barron County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Prairie Farm [Barron County].
- Wisconsin
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Prairie Farm ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Prairie Farm:
Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)
The FIPS database contains an entry for Prairie Farm.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 26/66180 (Place Name: Prairie Farm (Alicia))
County: Saginaw (FIPS State/County: 26/145)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Prairie Farm) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Saginaw County ...
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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 Saginaw County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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. |