Do you know of Turtle Lake ???

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

Our sources for Turtle 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 Turtle Lake other than they indicate that Turtle Lake would be found somewhere in Benzie County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1904.

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 Turtle Lake ...

We found eight communities that share the name Turtle Lake.

Within Michigan, the name Turtle Lake is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, five are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Louisiana
    • Concordia Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Turtle Lake [Concordia Parish].
  • Manitoba
    • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Turtle Lake.
  • Montana
    • Lake County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Turtle Lake [Lake County].
  • North Dakota
    • McLean County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Turtle Lake [McLean County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Turtle Lake.
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Turtle Lake.
  • Texas
    • Harris County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Turtle Lake [Harris County].
  • Wisconsin
    • Barron County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Turtle Lake [Barron County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Turtle Lake ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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 Turtle Lake - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

More Orphans in  Benzie County ...

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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 Benzie County.