Do you know of Superior ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Superior. 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 Superior.
Our sources for Superior (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 Superior other than they indicate that Superior would be found somewhere in Chippewa County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1888 and closed in 1896.
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 Superior ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Superior.
There are four communities within Michigan that are also named Superior.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Superior [Shelby County].
- Arizona
- Pinal County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Superior [Pinal County].
- Colorado
- Boulder County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Superior [Boulder County].
- Indiana
- Parke County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Superior [Parke County].
- Iowa
- Dickinson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Superior [Dickinson County].
- Kansas
- Jewell 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 Superior [Jewell County].
- Osage 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 Superior [Osage County].
- Louisiana
- Caddo Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Superior [Caddo Parish].
- Montana
- Mineral County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Superior [Mineral County].
- Nebraska
- Nuckolls County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Superior [Nuckolls County].
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Superior [Nye County].
- Ohio
- Lawrence 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 Ohio community of Superior [Lawrence County].
- Trumbull County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Superior [Trumbull County].
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny 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 Superior [Allegheny County].
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Superior [Fayette County].
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Superior [Westmoreland County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Superior [Salt Lake County].
- West Virginia
- McDowell County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Superior [McDowell County].
- Wisconsin
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Superior [Douglas County].
- Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Superior [Sweetwater County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Superior ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Superior:
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 Superior - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Chippewa 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 Chippewa 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Superior 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/ |