Do you know of Rankin ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Rankin. 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 Rankin.
Our source wasn't clear whether Rankin 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 Rankin would be found somewhere in Oceana 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 Rankin ...
We found 25 communities that share the name Rankin.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Rankin.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 24 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Genesee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Rankin [Genesee County].
- Genesee County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Pima County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Rankin [Pima County].
- Arkansas
- California
- Mendocino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Rankin [Mendocino 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 Rankin [Saint Clair County].
- Vermilion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Rankin [Vermilion County].
- Kentucky
- Clark 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 Kentucky community of Rankin [Clark County].
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rankin [Henderson County].
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Rankin [Wayne County].
- Mississippi
- Rankin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Rankin [Rankin County].
- Missouri
- Andrew County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Rankin [Andrew County].
- North Carolina
- Guilford County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Rankin [Guilford County].
- Mecklenburg 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 North Carolina community of Rankin [Mecklenburg County].
- Pender 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 North Carolina community of Rankin [Pender County].
- Oklahoma
- Roger Mills County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Rankin [Roger Mills County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Rankin.
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Rankin [Allegheny County].
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Kewaunee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Rankin [Kewaunee County].
- Arizona
More Orphans in Oceana 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 Oceana County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Rankin 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. |