Do you know of Van Patten ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Van Patten. 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 Van Patten.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Van Patten was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Van Patten would be found somewhere in Tuscola County, Michigan.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Van Patten ...

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

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)

More Orphans in Tuscola 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 Tuscola 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.