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 sources for Indian 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 Indian Lake other than they indicate that Indian Lake would be found somewhere in Oscoda County, Michigan.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1881 and closed in 1899.
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].
- Kalamazoo 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 [Kalamazoo County].
- Cass 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].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Indian Lake ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Indian 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 Indian Lake - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Oscoda 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 Oscoda 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 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 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |