Do you know of Bear Island ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Bear Island, so we are uncertain whether Bear Island is 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 Bear Island would be found somewhere in Cass County, Minnesota.

More Orphans in Cass 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 Cass County.

Estherville
	Soo Junction
Gull River	Sylvan Lake

Leech Lake	Webster Spur
	Wheelock
Portage Lake	Wicklow

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.