Do you know of Interlaken ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Interlaken, so we are uncertain whether Interlaken 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 Interlaken would be found somewhere in Muskegon 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 Interlaken ...

We found nine communities that share the name Interlaken.

Within Michigan, the name Interlaken is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Santa Cruz County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Interlaken [Santa Cruz County].
- Colorado
  - Chaffee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Interlaken [Chaffee County].
  - Lake 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 Colorado community of Interlaken [Lake County].
- Massachusetts
  - Berkshire County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Interlaken [Berkshire County].
- New Jersey
  - Monmouth 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 Interlaken [Monmouth County].
- New York
  - Saratoga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Interlaken [Saratoga County].
  - Seneca County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Interlaken [Seneca County].
- North Dakota
  - Steele County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Interlaken [Steele County].
- Washington
  - Pierce County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Interlaken [Pierce County].

More Orphans in Muskegon 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 Muskegon County.

Avondale	Lakeside
	Lincoln Meadows
Berry	Lincoln Park
Big Rapids Junction	Linderman
Bixby	Long Beach
Black Lake
Bluffton	Maplehurst
Brentwood	Meadowbrook
Brickton	Milliron Park
Brook Park	Mona Beach
Brookside	Mona Lake
Brookwood	Mona Shores
	Mona View
Califf	Mona Vista
Canada's Corners	Moon
Churchill
Claremont	Norton Oaks
	Norton
Dash	Nortondale
Dock Station
	Oakdale
Eagleston	Opdyke
Edgewood
Emens	Parkview Terrace
Emerson Highlands	Pickand
Evenwood	Pickands Junction
	Port Sherman
Farmwood
Ferndale	Ritter Hills
Fruitport Junction	Roodmont
	Ruddiman Terrace
Glenside Gardens
Glenside	Seminole Park
Green Creek	Shaw
	Simpson
Hall's	Slocum's Grove
Harbor Haven	Spires
Harbor Hills	Summer Haven
Harbor Park	Sweet
Harwood	Sweets
Highland View
Hines Crossing	Toledo Crossing
	Trent
Indian Village
	Voss
Kanitz
	West Plains
Lake Harbor Hills	West Roodmont
Lake Harbor Point	Westwood
Lake Harbor	White Lake Junction
Lake	Wildwood

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 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 Interlaken 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.