Do you know of Stella ???

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

We found mention of Stella as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Gratiot 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 1858 and closed in 1890.

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 Stella ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Stella.

Within Michigan, the name Stella is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Izard County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Stella [Izard County].
- Florida
  - Escambia 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 Stella [Escambia County].
- Kansas
  - Reno 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 Stella [Reno County].
  - Wilson 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 Kansas community of Stella [Wilson County].
- Kentucky
  - Calloway County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Stella [Calloway County].
  - Magoffin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Stella [Magoffin County].
- Louisiana
  - Plaquemines Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Stella [Plaquemines Parish].
- Mississippi
  - Pike County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Stella [Pike County].
- Missouri
  - Newton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Stella [Newton County].
- Nebraska
  - Richardson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Stella [Richardson County].
- New York
  - Broome County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Stella [Broome County].
- North Carolina
  - Carteret County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Stella [Carteret County].
- Ohio
  - Vinton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Stella [Vinton County].
- Oklahoma
  - Cleveland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Stella [Cleveland County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Stella.
- South Carolina
  - Orangeburg 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 South Carolina community of Stella [Orangeburg County].
- Tennessee
  - Giles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Stella [Giles County].
- Texas
  - Harris 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 Texas community of Stella [Harris County].
- Virginia
  - Patrick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Stella [Patrick County].
- Washington
  - Cowlitz County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Stella [Cowlitz County].
- West Virginia
  - Wirt 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 West Virginia community of Stella [Wirt County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Stella ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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 Gratiot 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 Gratiot County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Stella 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/