Do you know of Portlock ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Portlock. 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 Portlock.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Portlock, so we are uncertain whether Portlock is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. We can't give a location other than its somewhere in Alaska
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 Portlock ...
We found three communities that share the name Portlock.
Within Alaska, the name Portlock is unique.
Beyond Alaska, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...