Do you know of Crystal Lake ???

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

Our sources for Crystal 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 Crystal Lake other than they indicate that Crystal Lake would be found somewhere in Saint Clair County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1893.

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 Crystal Lake ...

We found 26 communities that share the name Crystal Lake.

Within Alabama, the name Crystal Lake is unique.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 25 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Nevada County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Crystal Lake [Nevada County].
- Colorado
  - Jefferson 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 Colorado community of Crystal Lake [Jefferson County].
  - Lake County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Crystal Lake [Lake County].
- Connecticut
  - Tolland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Crystal Lake [Tolland County].
- Florida
  - Broward County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Crystal Lake [Broward County].
  - 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 Crystal Lake [Orange County].
  - Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Crystal Lake [Polk County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Crystal Lake [Washington County].
- Illinois
  - Madison 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 Illinois community of Crystal Lake [Madison County].
  - McHenry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Crystal Lake [McHenry County].
- Iowa
  - Hancock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Crystal Lake [Hancock County].
- Kansas
  - Finney 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 Crystal Lake [Finney County].
- Kentucky
  - Oldham 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 Kentucky community of Crystal Lake [Oldham County].
- Michigan
  - Benzie 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 Michigan community of Crystal Lake [Benzie County].
  - Houghton County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Crystal Lake [Houghton County].
- Nebraska
  - Dakota 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 Nebraska community of Crystal Lake [Dakota County].
- New Jersey
  - Bergen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Crystal Lake [Bergen County].
  - Ocean County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Crystal Lake [Ocean County].
- New York
  - Albany 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 York community of Crystal Lake [Albany County].
  - Cattaraugus County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Crystal Lake [Cattaraugus County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Susquehanna 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 Pennsylvania community of Crystal Lake [Susquehanna County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Crystal Lake.
- South Carolina
  - Horry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Crystal Lake [Horry County].
- Texas
  - Anderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Crystal Lake [Anderson County].
- West Virginia
  - Doddridge 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 West Virginia community of Crystal Lake [Doddridge County].
- Wisconsin
  - Waupaca 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 Wisconsin community of Crystal Lake [Waupaca County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Crystal Lake ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

More Orphans in Saint Clair 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 Saint Clair 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Crystal 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/