Do you know of Indian Lake ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Indian Lake was 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 Indian Lake would be found somewhere in Kalamazoo 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 Indian Lake ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Indian Lake.

There are two communities within Michigan that are also named Indian Lake.

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

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Indian Lake [Cass County].
- Oscoda 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 Indian Lake [Oscoda County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Tuscaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Indian Lake [Tuscaloosa County].
- Georgia
  - Paulding County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Indian Lake [Paulding County].
- Indiana
  - DeKalb 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 Indian Lake [DeKalb County].
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Indian Lake [Marion County].
- Kentucky
  - Hancock 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 Kentucky community of Indian Lake [Hancock County].
- Missouri
  - Crawford 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 Missouri community of Indian Lake [Crawford County].
- New Jersey
  - 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 Indian Lake [Morris County].
- New York
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Indian Lake [Hamilton County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Somerset County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Indian Lake [Somerset County].
- Texas
  - Cameron County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Indian Lake [Cameron County].
  - Newton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Indian Lake [Newton County].
- Virginia
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Indian Lake [Frederick County].

More Orphans in Kalamazoo 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 Kalamazoo 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Indian 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.