Do you know of Sand Lake ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sand 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 Sand Lake.
Our sources for Sand 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 Sand Lake other than they indicate that Sand Lake would be found somewhere in Lake County, Illinois.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1863 and closed in 1882.
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 Sand Lake ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Sand Lake.
Within Illinois, the name Sand Lake is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, nine are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
- Florida
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sand Lake [Orange County].
- Michigan
- Iosco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sand Lake [Iosco County].
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Sand Lake [Kent County].
- Lenawee 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 Sand Lake [Lenawee County].
- Van Buren 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 Sand Lake [Van Buren County].
- New York
- Rensselaer County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Sand Lake [Rensselaer County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Sand Lake.
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Sand Lake.
- Texas
- Ellis County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sand Lake [Ellis County].
- Wisconsin
- Polk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Sand Lake [Polk County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sand Lake ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sand Lake:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)
More Orphans in Lake 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 Lake County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Sand 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |