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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

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

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Oak Lawn:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station, an Express Office

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

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Oak Lawn. See our Misc Page for Oak Lawn 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/