Do you know of Long Lake ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Long 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 Long Lake.
Our sources for Long Lake (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 Long Lake other than they indicate that Long Lake would be found somewhere in Madison County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1892.
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 Long Lake ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Long Lake.
There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Long Lake.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, seventeen are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Long Lake [Lake County].
- Lake County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Long Lake.
- Indiana
- Steuben 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 Indiana community of Long Lake [Steuben County].
- Wabash 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 Indiana community of Long Lake [Wabash County].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Long Lake.
- Michigan
- Clare 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 Michigan community of Long Lake [Clare County].
- Hillsdale 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 Michigan community of Long Lake [Hillsdale County].
- Ionia 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 Michigan community of Long Lake [Ionia County].
- Iosco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Long Lake [Iosco County].
- Wexford 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 Michigan community of Long Lake [Wexford County].
- Minnesota
- Hennepin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Long Lake [Hennepin County].
- Mississippi
- New York
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Long Lake [Hamilton County].
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Long Lake.
- South Dakota
- McPherson County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Long Lake [McPherson County].
- Texas
- Anderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Long Lake [Anderson County].
- Washington
- Kitsap 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 Washington community of Long Lake [Kitsap County].
- Lincoln County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Long Lake [Lincoln County].
- Wisconsin
- Florence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Long Lake [Florence County].
- Alberta
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Long Lake ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Long Lake:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Long Lake - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Madison 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 Madison 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 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 Long 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |