Do you know of West Branch ???

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

We found mention of West Branch as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Marquette County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named West Branch ...

We found nine communities that share the name West Branch.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named West Branch.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, seven are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Ogemaw County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of West Branch [Ogemaw County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Butte County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of West Branch [Butte County].
- Iowa
  - Cedar County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of West Branch [Cedar County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of West Branch.
- New York
  - Oneida County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of West Branch [Oneida County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of West Branch.
- Pennsylvania
  - Cambria County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of West Branch [Cambria County].
- Vermont
  - Lamoille County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of West Branch [Lamoille County].
- Washington
  - Spokane County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Washington community of West Branch [Spokane County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Branch ...

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

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)

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Marquette 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 Marquette County.

Adams Mine	Kerkelas
Albion Mine	Keystone Mine
Allen Mine	Kloman Mine
American Mine Junction	Kruse Mine
Anderson
Archibald Mine	Lake Angeline Mine
Ash	Lake Sally Mine
Athens Mine	Lake Superior Mine
Austin Junction	Larsons Spur
	Lefke
Bagdad Junction	Lena
Bagdad	Lillie Mine
Bancroft	Lloyd Mine
Barnes	Long Siding
Barnum Mine	Longyear
Barnum Siding	Low Moor
Barnum	Lucy Mine
Basil
Bayshore	Maas Mine
Beaver	Mackinaw Mine
Bennett Mine	Magnetic Mine
Bessie Mine Junction	Maitland Mine
Bessie Mine	Maney
Big Creek	Mangum Mill
Blueberry Mine Junction	Manistee
Blueberry Mine	Marcus
Boston Junction	Marigold
Boston Mine	Martin
Brasted Mine	Mary Charlotte Mine
Breitung Hematite Mine	McDermitts
Breitung Mine	McOmber Mine
Brotherton Mine	McReavey
Browns Crossing	Michigamme Mine
Brown's Siding	Middle Island Point
Bruce	Midway
Buffalo Mine	Millers Spur
Bunns	Milwaukee Junction
Burtis	Milwaukee Mine
	Mineral Branch
Cambria - Jackson Mine	Mitchell Mine
Cambria Mine	Morgan
Carp Furnace	Morris Mine
Carp River	Mour
Carp
Cascade Junction	National
Cascade Mine	Neganunee Mine
Champion Junction	New England Mine
Champion Mine	New Furnace
Chase Mine	New Richmond
Cheshire Junction	New York Hematite Mine
Cheshire Mine	New York Mine
Chicago Mine	North Jackson
Chocolay	Northampton Mine
Cleveland Hematite Mine	Northwestern Mine
Cleveland Mine
Cliffs Mine	Ogden Mine
Coal Dock	Old Richmond Mine
Columbia Mine	Ontonagon
Copps Spur	Oro
Crescent
Cyr Mine	Palmer Mine
Cyr	Parker Spur
Cyre	Partridge
	Pascoe Mine
Davis Mine	Penegor Spur
Dead River	Pickeral Lake
Deer Lake	Pinehill
Della	Pioneer Mine
Detroit Mine	Popple
Dewey	Powder Hill
Dexter Junction	Powell
Dexter	Power
Dey Mine	Presque Isle
Dishneau Pit	Princeton Mine
Dishneau
Dishno	Queen Mine
Dorias	Queen
Dow
Duncan	Raish
	Ransom
East Cambria Mine	Reichells Mill
East Champion Mine	Republic Junction
East Chicago Mine	Republic Mine
East New York Mine	Riverside Mine
Emmet	Robbins Spur
Empire Mine	Rolling Mill Mine
Erie Mine	Ross
Excelsior Mine
	Saginaw Mine
Finnegan	Saint Lawrence
Firmin	Salisbury Mine
Fitch Mine	Sand River
Flynn	Schneider
Forsyth	Shenango Mine
Fort Wilkins	Sigan
Foster Mine	Skeel
Francis Mine	Smith Mine Junction
	Smith Mine
Gardner Mine	South Buffalo
Gillespie	Spears
Gleason	Stack
Goodman	Star West Mine
Goodrich	Stegmiller Mine
Goose Lake	Stephenson
Grandview	Stimson
Granite	Stoneville
Granot	Suomi
Greenwood Mine Junction	Superior
Greenwood Mine
Gwinn Mine	Taylors
	Tilden Mine
Harperville	Tilden
Hartford Mine	Turin
Hematite Mine	Tylers
Hilltop
Himrod Mine	Union Park
Hogstrom
Hoist	Van Iderstine
Holmes Mine	Viking Spur
Humboldt	Volunteer Mine

Iris	Wabik
Iron Mountain Mine	Washington Mine
Iron Valley Mine	Watson Mine
Isabella Mine	West End Mine
	West Republic Mine
Jackson Mine	Wheeling Mine
Jackson	Whitman
Jean	Winthrop Mine
Johnsons Siding	Winthrop
Jopling	Wolverine

Kates Lake	Young

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>

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 West Branch 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.