Do you know of Lakeland ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lakeland. 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 Lakeland.
Our sources for Lakeland (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 Lakeland other than they indicate that Lakeland would be found somewhere in Meade County, Kansas.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1885 and closed in 1924.
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 Lakeland ...
We found 30 communities that share the name Lakeland.
Within Kansas, the name Lakeland is unique.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another 30 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 30 communities, 27 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lakeland [Polk County].
- Georgia
- Lanier County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lakeland [Lanier County].
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lakeland [Jefferson County].
- Louisiana
- Pointe Coupee Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Lakeland [Pointe Coupee Parish].
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Lakeland.
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Lakeland [Anne Arundel County].
- Baltimore City
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Lakeland [Baltimore City].
- Prince George's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Lakeland [Prince George's County].
- Michigan
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lakeland [Livingston County].
- Minnesota
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Lakeland [Washington County].
- Mississippi
- Rankin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Lakeland [Rankin County].
- Missouri
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Lakeland.
- New Jersey
- Camden County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Lakeland [Camden County].
- New York
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Lakeland.
- Ohio
- South Carolina
- Lexington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lakeland [Lexington County].
- Tennessee
- Shelby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lakeland [Shelby County].
- Texas
- Utah
- Davis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Lakeland [Davis County].
- Virginia
- Washington
- King County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lakeland [King County].
- Florida
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lakeland ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lakeland:
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 Lakeland - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Meade 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 Meade 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 Lakeland 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/ |