Do you know of Somerville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Somerville. 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 Somerville.<1>
We found mention of Somerville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kent 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.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1848 and closed in 1850.
Communities Also Named Somerville ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Somerville.
Within Michigan, the name Somerville is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Somerville [Morgan County].
- Indiana
- Gibson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Somerville [Gibson County].
- Kansas
- Leavenworth County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Somerville [Leavenworth County].
- Maine
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Somerville [Lincoln County].
- Massachusetts
- Middlesex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Somerville [Middlesex County].
- Mississippi
- Leflore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Somerville [Leflore County].
- Missouri
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Somerville [Clinton County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Somerville.
- New Jersey
- Somerset County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Somerville [Somerset County].
- New York
- Queens County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Somerville [Queens County].
- Saint Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Somerville [Saint Lawrence County].
- Ohio
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Somerville [Butler County].
- Pennsylvania
- Armstrong County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Somerville [Armstrong County].
- Philadelphia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Somerville [Philadelphia County].
- Tioga County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Somerville [Tioga County].
- Tennessee
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Somerville [Fayette County].
- Texas
- Burleson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Somerville [Burleson County].
- Virginia
- Fauquier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Somerville [Fauquier County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Somerville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Somerville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
More Orphans in Kent 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 Kent 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. |
| <3> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Somerville 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. |
| <4> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |