Do you know of Drake ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Drake. 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 Drake.
We found mention of Drake as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Defiance County, Ohio.
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.
Communities Also Named Drake ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Drake.
There is one other community in Ohio which is also named Drake.
Beyond Ohio, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Ohio ...
- Muskingum County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Drake [Muskingum County].
- Muskingum County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- California
- Santa Barbara County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Drake [Santa Barbara County].
- Colorado
- Larimer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Drake [Larimer County].
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Jackson 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 Kansas community of Drake [Jackson County].
- Ness County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Drake [Ness County].
- Kentucky
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Drake [Warren County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Drake.
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Gasconade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Drake [Gasconade County].
- Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Drake [Saint Louis County].
- North Carolina
- Nash County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Drake [Nash County].
- North Dakota
- McHenry County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Drake [McHenry County].
- Oklahoma
- Murray County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Drake [Murray County].
- Pennsylvania
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Drake [Lawrence County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Drake.
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Drake ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Drake:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Drake - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned
More Orphans in Defiance 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 Defiance County.
| Cup | |
| Mark Centre | |
| Defiance Junction | Mark |
| Delaware Bend | |
| Panama | |
| East Defiance | |
| Windchester Hills | |
| Foss |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Drake 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. |