Do you know of Sanford ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sanford. 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 Sanford.
We found mention of Sanford as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Ingham 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 1840 and closed in 1862.
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 Sanford ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Sanford.
There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Sanford.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 25 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Midland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sanford [Midland County].
- Midland County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sanford [Covington County].
- California
- Colorado
- Conejos County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Sanford [Conejos County].
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Orange 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 Florida community of Sanford [Orange County].
- Seminole County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sanford [Seminole County].
- Georgia
- Kansas
- Pawnee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Sanford [Pawnee County].
- Phillips County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Sanford [Phillips County].
- Shawnee 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 Kansas community of Sanford [Shawnee County].
- Maine
- York County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Sanford [York County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Sanford.
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Sanford [Montgomery County].
- Mississippi
- Covington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Sanford [Covington County].
- New York
- North Carolina
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Sanford [Lee County].
- Moore 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 Sanford [Moore County].
- Pennsylvania
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sanford [Warren County].
- Quebec
- Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Sanford.
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- McMinn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sanford [McMinn County].
- Texas
- Hutchinson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sanford [Hutchinson County].
- Virginia
- Accomack County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Sanford [Accomack County].
- West Virginia
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Sanford [Marion County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sanford ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sanford:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Ingham 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 Ingham 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 Sanford 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |