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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Lake Wales came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Lake Wales in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lake Wales. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Lake Wales data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Southeast

Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 1999
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for Florida (1956)

Published by Shell Oil Company

In addition:

Lake Wales is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

We found Lake Wales in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Lake Wales for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Lake Wales. See our Misc Page for Lake Wales for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/