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Do you know of Yew ???

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

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

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 Yew ...

We found one communities that share the name Yew.

Within Michigan, the name Yew is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Washington
      • Snohomish 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 Washington community of Yew [Snohomish County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Yew ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Yew - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Wayne 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 Wayne County.

AshMark
 Mason
Bay City JunctionMaybury
Beaufait StationMcKinneys
BeckMeyers Junction
BedfordMiddlebelt
BeldenMill
Bell BranchMilwaukee Junction
Belt Line JunctionMorton
BennettMount Elliott
Birch Hill ParkMount Olivet
Birrell 
BorodinoNallville
BoulevardNankin Mills
BrownstownNankin
 Navarre
Canton StationNewburg
ChandlerNorris
ClaireviewNorth Detroit
ClairviewNorth End
College ParkNortheast
Connors GroveNortheastern
CoolidgeNorthwestern
Cottage Grove 
Curtis SidingOakwood Junction
 Oakwood Park
Dearborn JunctionOakwood
DearbornvilleOld Redford
Dearoad 
DehocoPark Grove
Delta YardPark Plaza
 Penford
East MelvindalePenobscot
Eastland CenterPerrinsville
EcorcePike's Peak
Ecorse JunctionPlank Road
EdisonPlymouth Junction
ElmwoodPreston
Eureka 
 Redford Heights
FenkellRedford Junction
FishersRosedale Gardens
Five PointsRougemere
Ford Junction 
FordSaint Clair Heights
FordhavenSalt Wells
Forest LawnSand Hill
Fort DearbornSchaeffer
Fort ShelbySecords
Fox CreekSeven Oaks
FullertonSherwood Gardens
 Skandia
Garden City NorthSlocum Junction
GarfieldSouthern Junction
Grand Circus ParkStone Island
Grand RiverStony Island
Grandale GardensStrongs Siding
GratiotSumpter
Greenfield 
 Taylor Park
Hand StationTeleford
HarperTelreka
Hickory IslandTonquish
HowlettTown Line
HuronTrenton Junction
 Trolley
JeffersonTurkey
Joyfield 
 Van Pelham
Kenwood 
KerchevalWallaceville
 Waterford
Lake Shore JunctionWayne Junction
LeesvilleWest Detroit
LeGraphWest End
LinwoodWestend
LivernoisWhitewood
LurmetWillow Gardens
 Woodmere
Maple 

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 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 Yew 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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