Do you know of Salt River ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Salt River. 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 Salt River.

We found mention of Salt River as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Isabella County, Michigan.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1857 and closed  in 1887.

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 Salt River ...

We found four communities that share the name Salt River.

Within Michigan, the name Salt River is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arizona
    • Maricopa County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Salt River [Maricopa County].
  • Kentucky
    • Bullitt County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Salt River [Bullitt County].
  • Missouri
    • Ralls County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Salt River [Ralls County].
  • Northwest Territories
    • Please visit our profile page for the Northwest Territories community of Salt River.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Salt River ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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)

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Isabella 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 Isabella County.