Do you know of Smith's Corners ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Smith's Corners. 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 Smith's Corners.
Our sources for Smith's Corners (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Smith's Corners other than they indicate that Smith's Corners 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 Smith's Corners ...
We found three communities that share the name Smith's Corners.
Within Michigan, the name Smith's Corners is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New York
- Fulton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Smith's Corners [Fulton County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Smith's Corners.
- Pennsylvania
- Venango County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Smith's Corners [Venango County].
- New York
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Smith's Corners ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Smith's Corners:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Smith's Corners - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Oceana 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 Oceana County.