Do you know of Lake Shore ???

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

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

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 Lake Shore ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Lake Shore.

Within Indiana, the name Lake Shore is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Tuscaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Lake Shore [Tuscaloosa County].
- Colorado
  - Hinsdale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Lake Shore [Hinsdale County].
- Florida
  - Duval County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lake Shore [Duval County].
- Georgia
  - Hall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lake Shore [Hall County].
- Kansas
  - Ellsworth 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 Kansas community of Lake Shore [Ellsworth County].
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lake Shore [Jefferson County].
- Louisiana
  - Orleans Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of Lake Shore [Orleans Parish].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Lake Shore [Anne Arundel County].
- Michigan
  - Allegan 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 Lake Shore [Allegan County].
  - Macomb County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lake Shore [Macomb County].
- Minnesota
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Lake Shore [Cass County].
  - Ramsey 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 Minnesota community of Lake Shore [Ramsey County].
- Missouri
  - Buchanan 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 Missouri community of Lake Shore [Buchanan County].
- South Carolina
  - Horry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lake Shore [Horry County].
- Tennessee
  - Roane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lake Shore [Roane County].
- Texas
  - Brown County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lake Shore [Brown County].
- Utah
  - Davis 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 Utah community of Lake Shore [Davis County].
  - Utah County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Lake Shore [Utah County].
- Washington
  - Clark County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lake Shore [Clark County].

More Orphans in Porter 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 Porter 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 Lake Shore 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.