Do you know of East Lake ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about East Lake. 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 East Lake.
Our sources for East Lake (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of East Lake other than they indicate that East Lake would be found somewhere in Marion County, Florida.
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 East Lake ...
We found thirteen communities that share the name East Lake.
There are two communities within Florida that are also named East Lake.
Beyond Florida, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Florida ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Delaware
- Georgia
- DeKalb County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of East Lake [DeKalb County].
- Minnesota
- Aitkin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of East Lake [Aitkin County].
- Missouri
- New Madrid County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of East Lake [New Madrid County].
- New Jersey
- Salem County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of East Lake [Salem County].
- North Carolina
- Dare County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of East Lake [Dare County].
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of East Lake [Richland County].
- Tennessee
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of East Lake [Hamilton County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East Lake ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about East Lake:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for East Lake - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
The FIPS database contains an entry for East Lake.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 12/19200 (Place Name: East Lake (RR name for Eastlake Weir))
County: Marion (FIPS State/County: 12/083)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Marion 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 Marion County.
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 East Lake 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. |