Do you know of Little Lake ???

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

We found mention of Little Lake as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Riverside County, California.

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.

Communities Also Named Little Lake ...

We found five communities that share the name Little Lake.

There is one other community in California which is also named Little Lake.

Beyond California, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Located In California ...
- Inyo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Little Lake [Inyo County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Michigan
  - Marquette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Little Lake [Marquette County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Little Lake.
- Ontario
  - 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 Ontario community of Little Lake.
- Wisconsin
  - Adams 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 Little Lake [Adams County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Little Lake ...

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California & Nevada
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2002
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Little Lake.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 06/41810 (Place Name: Little Lake)

County: Riverside (FIPS State/County: 06/065)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Little Lake) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Riverside 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 Riverside 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 Little 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.