Do you know of Highland Lake ???

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

We found mention of Highland Lake as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Lake County, Illinois.

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 Highland Lake ...

We found eight communities that share the name Highland Lake.

Within Illinois, the name Highland Lake is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Blount County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Highland Lake [Blount County].
- Colorado
  - Weld County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Highland Lake [Weld County].
- Maine
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Highland Lake [Cumberland County].
- Maryland
  - Howard County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Highland Lake [Howard County].
- Massachusetts
  - Norfolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Highland Lake [Norfolk County].
- New Jersey
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Highland Lake [Sussex County].
- New York
  - Sullivan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Highland Lake [Sullivan County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Lycoming 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 Pennsylvania community of Highland Lake [Lycoming County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Highland Lake ...

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

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 Highland Lake.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 17/34709 (Place Name: Highland Lake)

County: Lake (FIPS State/County: 17/097)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Highland Lake) 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 Lake 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 Lake County.

Abbott Park	Larkdale
Angola	Leisure Village
Arden Shores	Liberty Lake
	Little Fort
Barrington Highlands	Loch Lomond
Beach	Longgrove
Benton
Big Hollow	McGaw Park
Brookhill	Meyers Bay
Bull Creek	Mill Creek
	Mortimer
Cambridge
Cedar Island	New Century Town
Chantilly	Newport
Chippendale	Nippersink Terrace
Colony Point	Nippersink
Concord Green	North Hills
Continental Village
Cornelia	Oak Hill
Countryside Lake	Oak Spring Woods
Countryside	Oakwood Knolls
Crooked Lake Oaks	Orchard Valley
Crooked Lake	Otsego

Deep Lake	Petite Lake
Deep Woods	Pistakee Heights
Downey	Pistaqua Heights
Duck Lake Woods	Port Clinton
Dulanty
	Randall Park
East Loon Lake	Ravinia Park
Edison Square	Red Oak Terrace
Ela	River Glen
	Riverside Island
Farnsworth	Rockland
Forest Gardens
Foresthaven	Sand Lake
Forksville	Serryse
Forrestal Village	Seven Hills
Fort Sheridan	Shady Hill
Fox Lake Vista	Shaw
Fox Point	South Upton
Fox River	South Waukegan
	Spanish Court
Glen Arms	Spring Bluff
Glennshire	Stanton Point
Grade Siding
Greentree	The Terrace
	Timber Lake
Halsey Village	Tullamore
Heatherridge
Hickory	Upton

Imperial	Warrenton Grove
Indian Hills	Warrenton
Indian Point	West Miltmore
	Whispering Oaks
Kings Cove	Woodmere
	Wooster Lake
Lake Marie
Lancaster	Zurich Heights
Lancasterville

Footnotes ...

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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 Highland 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.