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Do you know of Timber Lake ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Timber 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 Timber Lake.<1>

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Timber Lake, so we are uncertain whether Timber Lake is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Timber Lake would be found somewhere in Lake County, Illinois.

Communities Also Named Timber Lake ...

We found three communities that share the name Timber Lake.

There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Timber Lake.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Illinois ...
    • Carroll County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Timber Lake [Carroll County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Union County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Timber Lake [Union County].
    • South Dakota
      • Dewey County
      • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Timber Lake [Dewey County].

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.

Abbott ParkLancasterville
AbingdonLarkdale
AngolaLeisure Village
Arden ShoresLiberty Lake
 Little Fort
Barrington HighlandsLoch Lomond
BeachLonggrove
Benton 
Big HollowMcGaw Park
BrookhillMeyers Bay
Bull CreekMill Creek
 Mortimer
Cambridge 
Cedar IslandNepasink
ChantillyNew Century Town
ChippendaleNewport
Colony PointNippersink Terrace
Concord GreenNippersink
Continental VillageNorth Hills
Cornelia 
Countryside LakeOak Hill
CountrysideOak Spring Woods
Crooked Lake OaksOakwood Knolls
Crooked LakeOrchard Valley
 Otsego
Deep Lake 
Deep WoodsPetite Lake
DightonPistakee Heights
DowneyPistaqua Heights
Duck Lake WoodsPort Clinton
Dulanty 
 Randall Park
East Fox LakeRavinia Park
East Loon LakeRed Oak Terrace
Edison SquareRiver Glen
ElaRiverside Island
 Rockland
Farnsworth 
Forest GardensSand Lake
ForesthavenSaugatuck
ForksvilleSerryse
Forrestal VillageSeven Hills
Fort SheridanShady Hill
Fox Lake VistaShaw
Fox PointSouth Upton
Fox RiverSouth Waukegan
 Spanish Court
Glen ArmsSpring Bluff
GlennshireStanton Point
Grade Siding 
GreentreeThe Terrace
 Tullamore
Halsey Village 
HeatherridgeUpton
Hickory 
Highland LakeWarrenton Grove
 Warrenton
ImperialWentworth
Indian HillsWest Miltmore
Indian PointWhispering Oaks
 Woodmere
Kings CoveWooster Lake
  
Lake MarieZurich Heights
Lancaster 

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Timber 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.









 

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