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Do you know of Kettle River ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1881 and closed  in 1892.

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 Kettle River ...

We found one communities that share the name Kettle River.

There is one other community in Minnesota which is also named Kettle River.

Beyond Minnesota.

  • Communities Located In Minnesota ...
    • Carlton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Kettle River [Carlton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kettle River ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Kettle River - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

More Orphans in  Pine 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 Pine County.

Brook Park JunctionMiller
Brown's Hill 
 Partridge
ChengwatanaPokegama
  
Gorham SpurSandstone Junction
  
Lake LenaWareham
 West Rock
Mansfield 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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