Do you know of Cedar Lake ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Cedar Lake, so we are uncertain whether Cedar Lake is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Cedar Lake would be found somewhere in Van Buren County, Michigan.

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 Cedar Lake ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Cedar Lake.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Cedar Lake.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Montcalm County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Cedar Lake [Montcalm County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Morgan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cedar Lake [Morgan County].
  - Walker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cedar Lake [Walker County].
- Connecticut
  - Hartford 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 Connecticut community of Cedar Lake [Hartford County].
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Cedar Lake [Middlesex County].
- Georgia
  - Dougherty County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cedar Lake [Dougherty County].
- Indiana
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Cedar Lake [Lake County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Cedar Lake.
- Minnesota
  - Crow Wing 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 Minnesota community of Cedar Lake [Crow Wing County].
  - Scott County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Cedar Lake [Scott County].
- Mississippi
  - Harrison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Cedar Lake [Harrison County].
- New Jersey
  - Atlantic County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Cedar Lake [Atlantic County].
  - Morris 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 New Jersey community of Cedar Lake [Morris County].
- New York
  - Herkimer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cedar Lake [Herkimer County].
- Nova Scotia
  - 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 Nova Scotia community of Cedar Lake.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Cedar Lake.
- South Carolina
  - Greenwood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Cedar Lake [Greenwood County].
- Texas
  - Matagorda County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cedar Lake [Matagorda County].
- Wisconsin
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Cedar Lake [Washington County].
  - Waushara 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 Wisconsin community of Cedar Lake [Waushara County].

More Orphans in Van Buren 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 Van Buren County.

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 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 Cedar 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.