Do you know of Island Lake ???

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

We found mention of Island Lake as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Livingston 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.

Communities Also Named Island Lake ...

We found ten communities that share the name Island Lake.

Within Michigan, the name Island Lake is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alberta
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Island Lake.
- Florida
  - Orange 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 Florida community of Island Lake [Orange County].
- Illinois
  - McHenry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Island Lake [McHenry County].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Island Lake.
- Minnesota
  - Beltrami County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Island Lake [Beltrami County].
  - Lyon 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 Island Lake [Lyon County].
- North Dakota
  - Rolette 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 North Dakota community of Island Lake [Rolette County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Island Lake.
- Washington
  - Kitsap 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 Washington community of Island Lake [Kitsap County].
- Wisconsin
  - Rusk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Island Lake [Rusk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Island Lake ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Island Lake:

Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Island Lake - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for Island Lake.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 26/41260 (Place Name: Island Lake)

County: Livingston (FIPS State/County: 26/093)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Island Lake) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Livingston 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 Livingston 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 Island 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.