Do you know of Young ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Young. 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 Young.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Young 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 Young would be found somewhere in Marquette County, Michigan.
Communities Also Named Young ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Young.
Within Michigan, the name Young is unique.
Beyond Michigan, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Gila County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Young [Gila County].
- Arkansas
- Nevada County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Young [Nevada County].
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Young [Brown County].
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Young [Morgan County].
- Vigo County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Young [Vigo County].
- Mississippi
- Pearl River County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Young [Pearl River County].
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Young [Marion County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Young.
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Freestone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Young [Freestone County].
- West Virginia
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Young [Jackson County].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Young ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Young:
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 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.
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. |
| <3> | 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 Young 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. |