Do you know of Stony Point ???

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

Our sources for Stony Point (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Stony Point other than they indicate that Stony Point would be found somewhere in Jackson County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1872 and closed in 1902.

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 Stony Point ...

We found 28 communities that share the name Stony Point.

There are two communities within Michigan that are also named Stony Point.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Barry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Stony Point [Barry County].
- Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Stony Point [Monroe County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Stony Point [Perry County].
  - White 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 Arkansas community of Stony Point [White County].
- California
  - Sonoma County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Stony Point [Sonoma County].
- Indiana
  - Jefferson 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 Indiana community of Stony Point [Jefferson County].
- Kansas
  - Wyandotte County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Stony Point [Wyandotte County].
- Kentucky
  - Bourbon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Stony Point [Bourbon County].
- Missouri
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Stony Point [Jackson County].
- New York
  - Rensselaer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Stony Point [Rensselaer County].
  - Rockland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Stony Point [Rockland County].
- North Carolina
  - Alexander County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Stony Point [Alexander County].
  - Cleveland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Stony Point [Cleveland County].
- Ohio
  - Meigs County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Stony Point [Meigs County].
  - Muskingum County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Stony Point [Muskingum County].
- Oklahoma
  - Adair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Stony Point [Adair County].
  - Le Flore County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Stony Point [Le Flore County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Berks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Stony Point [Berks County].
  - Bucks 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 Pennsylvania community of Stony Point [Bucks County].
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Stony Point [Crawford County].
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Stony Point [Franklin County].
  - Greene County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Stony Point [Greene County].
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Stony Point [Perry County].
- South Carolina
  - Greenwood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Stony Point [Greenwood County].
- Tennessee
  - Dickson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Stony Point [Dickson County].
  - Hawkins County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Stony Point [Hawkins County].
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Stony Point [Knox County].
- Virginia
  - Albemarle County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Stony Point [Albemarle County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Stony Point ...

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

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)

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Stony Point - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

More Orphans in Jackson 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 Jackson 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 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 Stony Point 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/