Do you know of Forest Lake ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Forest Lake, so we are uncertain whether Forest Lake 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 Forest Lake would be found somewhere in Richland County, South Carolina.

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 Forest Lake ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Forest Lake.

There are three communities within South Carolina that are also named Forest Lake.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Greenwood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Forest Lake [Greenwood County].
- Horry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Forest Lake [Horry County].
- York County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Forest Lake [York County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Tuscaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Forest Lake [Tuscaloosa County].
- California
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Forest Lake [Lake County].
  - San Joaquin 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 California community of Forest Lake [San Joaquin County].
- Georgia
  - Bibb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Forest Lake [Bibb County].
- Illinois
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Forest Lake [Lake County].
- Indiana
  - Hendricks 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 Forest Lake [Hendricks County].
- Kansas
  - Wyandotte 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 Kansas community of Forest Lake [Wyandotte County].
- Maryland
  - Harford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Forest Lake [Harford County].
- Massachusetts
  - Hampden 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 Massachusetts community of Forest Lake [Hampden County].
- Michigan
  - Alger County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Forest Lake [Alger County].
- Minnesota
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Forest Lake [Washington County].
- New Hampshire
  - Cheshire 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 Hampshire community of Forest Lake [Cheshire County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Susquehanna County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Forest Lake [Susquehanna County].
- Texas
  - Brazos County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Forest Lake [Brazos County].

More Orphans in Richland 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 Richland 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 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 Forest 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.