Do you know of Raisin ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Raisin. 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 Raisin.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Raisin 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 Raisin would be found somewhere in Monroe County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named Raisin ...

We found one communities that share the name Raisin.

Within Michigan, the name Raisin is unique.

Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Raisin in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Texas
  - Victoria County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Raisin [Victoria County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Raisin ...

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

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)

More Orphans in Monroe 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 Monroe 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.