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

Our source wasn't clear whether Wood Spur 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 Wood Spur would be found somewhere in Ontonagon County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named Wood Spur ...

We found one communities that share the name Wood Spur.

Within Michigan, the name Wood Spur is unique.

Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Wood Spur in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alaska
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Wood Spur.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wood Spur ...

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

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)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Wood Spur.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 26/88620   (Place Name: Wood Spur)

County: Ontonagon     (FIPS State/County: 26/131)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Wood Spur) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Ontonagon 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 Ontonagon County.

Adventure 
 Jumbo
Ballentine 
BarclayLindstedt
Bergland MillsLittle Falls
Bowles Spur 
BradyMass Mine
Bruce's CrossingMass
 Michigan Mine
Camp TolfreeMiners Spur
Cousin 
Cranberry JunctionNester
 North Lake
EvergreenNorton
Ewen Station 
 O'Brien
Falls 
FlintsteelPeninsula
Floodwood RiverPeppard
Francis Siding 
 Radford
GaleRange Junction
GreenlandRiddle Junction
Greenland StationRogers
GroesbeckRoselawn
 Rubicon
Halsey 
HannahSaint Collins
Hubbells MillSandhurst
 Schriver
IndianaSeager
Interior JunctionSimar
InteriorStevenson
Iron River JunctionStratton

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.