Do you know of Lake Forest ???

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

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

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 Lake Forest ...

We found 27 communities that share the name Lake Forest.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Lake Forest.

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

Communities Located In Alabama ...
- Tuscaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Lake Forest [Tuscaloosa County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Lake Forest [Orange County].
  - Placer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Lake Forest [Placer County].
- Florida
  - Broward County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lake Forest [Broward County].
  - Duval County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lake Forest [Duval County].
  - Hillsborough County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lake Forest [Hillsborough County].
- Georgia
  - Cherokee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lake Forest [Cherokee County].
  - Gwinnett County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lake Forest [Gwinnett County].
  - Hall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lake Forest [Hall County].
  - Oconee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lake Forest [Oconee County].
- Illinois
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lake Forest [Lake County].
- Louisiana
  - Jefferson Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of Lake Forest [Jefferson Parish].
  - Orleans Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Lake Forest [Orleans Parish].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Lake Forest.
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Lake Forest [Anne Arundel County].
- Michigan
  - Antrim 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 Lake Forest [Antrim County].
- Mississippi
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Lake Forest [Warren County].
- New Jersey
  - Morris 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 Jersey community of Lake Forest [Morris County].
- North Carolina
  - Mecklenburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lake Forest [Mecklenburg County].
  - New Hanover County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lake Forest [New Hanover County].
- South Carolina
  - Greenville County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lake Forest [Greenville County].
  - Spartanburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lake Forest [Spartanburg County].
- Tennessee
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lake Forest [Hamilton County].
- Texas
  - Harris 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 Texas community of Lake Forest [Harris County].
  - Tarrant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lake Forest [Tarrant County].
- Virginia
  - Suffolk City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Lake Forest [Suffolk City].
- Wisconsin
  - Waukesha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Lake Forest [Waukesha County].

More Orphans in Baldwin 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 Baldwin 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 Lake Forest 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.