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Do you know of Black River ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Black River, so we are uncertain whether Black River is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Black River would be found somewhere in Koochiching County, Minnesota.

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 Black River ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Black River.

Within Minnesota, the name Black River is unique.

Beyond Minnesota, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, nine are located in the United States and nine are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Louisiana
      • Catahoula Parish
      • 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 Louisiana community of Black River [Catahoula Parish].
      • Concordia Parish
      • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Black River [Concordia Parish].
    • Manitoba
      • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Black River.
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore 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 Maryland community of Black River [Baltimore County].
    • Michigan
      • Alcona County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Black River [Alcona County].
      • Allegan 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 Michigan community of Black River [Allegan County].
    • New Brunswick
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Black River.
    • New York
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Black River [Jefferson County].
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Black River.
    • Nova Scotia
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Black River.
    • Ontario
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Black River.
    • Washington
      • King 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 Black River [King County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Douglas County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Black River [Douglas County].
      • Sheboygan 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 Wisconsin community of Black River [Sheboygan County].

More Orphans in  Koochiching 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 Koochiching County.

Bois FortHeisig
  
Happy LandRidge
Happyland 

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Black River 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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