Welcome to Silver Lake ...
So far, we found very little information about Silver Lake. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Silver Lake to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Silver Lake - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Silver Lake, please Contact Us.
While we don't have the exact location of Silver Lake , we believe that it would have been located within present day San Bernardino County<2>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Silver Lake, you might consider that their post office opened in 1907.
A typical abbreviation for Silver Lake: Silver Lk.
Time Zone: The area where Silver Lake was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time
Communities Also Named Silver Lake ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two California communities named Silver Lake: This one is located in San Bernardino County and the other is located in Amador County.
Beyond California, there are 48 communities that are also named Silver Lake - they are located in British Columbia, Colorado, Florida (2), Georgia (2), Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts (2), Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey (2), New York (3), North Carolina (2), Ohio (2), Ontario (3), Oregon, Pennsylvania (3), Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington (4), West Virginia and Wisconsin (2).
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Silver Lake.
Adding Silver Lake to Our Gazetteer ...
As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.
The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Silver Lake was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
From that list, the Silver Lake post office opened in 1907.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Silver Lake.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for San Bernardino County: www.sbcounty.gov/
The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Silver Lake, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including San Bernardino, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |