Do you know of Houghton ???

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

Our sources for Houghton (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 Houghton other than they indicate that Houghton would be found somewhere in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1907.

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 Houghton ...

We found seven communities that share the name Houghton.

Within Wisconsin, the name Houghton is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Colorado
    • Las Animas County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Houghton [Las Animas County].
  • Iowa
    • Lee County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Houghton [Lee County].
  • Maine
    • Oxford County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Houghton [Oxford County].
  • Michigan
    • Houghton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Houghton [Houghton County].
  • New York
    • Allegany County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Houghton [Allegany County].
  • South Dakota
    • Brown County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Houghton [Brown County].
  • Washington
    • King County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Houghton [King County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Houghton ...

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

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 Houghton - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Houghton.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 55/35875   (Place Name: Houghton)

County: Bayfield     (FIPS State/County: 55/007)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Houghton) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Bayfield 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 Bayfield County.