Do you know of Red Lake ???

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

Our sources for Red Lake (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Red Lake other than they indicate that Red Lake would be found somewhere in Brule County, South Dakota.

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 Red Lake ...

We found five communities that share the name Red Lake.

Within South Dakota, the name Red Lake is unique.

Beyond South Dakota, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arizona
    • Coconino County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Red Lake [Coconino County].
  • Minnesota
    • Beltrami County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Red Lake [Beltrami County].
  • New Mexico
    • Roosevelt County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Red Lake [Roosevelt County].
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Red Lake.
  • Texas
    • Freestone County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Red Lake [Freestone County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Red Lake ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in  Brule 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 Brule County.