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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Lake Parlin. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Lake Parlin to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Lake Parlin, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Lake Parlin (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Lake Parlin. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Name Variations for Lake Parlin ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Lake Parlin: Lk. Parlin
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Lake Parlin is historic, it would have been located within present day Somerset County.
To see how the shape of Maine's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Somerset County: Franklin, Kennebec, Penobscot, Piscataquis & Waldo.
Below are the counties that are near Lake Parlin. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lake Parlin:
- Somerset County (The home county of Lake Parlin)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lake Parlin, with the one closest to Lake Parlin listed first.
- Long Pond
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Long Pond is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Pond
- Mackamp
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Mackamp is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mackamp
- West Forks
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- West Forks Plantation
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- West Forks Plantation is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Forks Plantation
- Population from the 2020 Census: 58 people
- Jackman
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Moose River
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Moose River is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moose River
- Population from the 2020 Census: 207 people
- The Forks
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- The Forks is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Forks
- Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
- The Forks has also been known as:
- The Forks Plantation
- Plantation of The Forks
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for The Forks <2>
- Somerset Junction
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Somerset Junction is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset Junction
- Dennistown Plantation
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Dennistown Plantation is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennistown Plantation
- Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
- Holeb
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Holeb is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holeb
- Rockwood
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Caratunk
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Pleasant Ridge Plantation
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Pleasant Ridge Plantation is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge Plantation
- Population from the 2020 Census: 89 people
- Franklin County
- Lowelltown
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Lowelltown is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowelltown
- Piscataquis County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lake Parlin, with the one closest to Lake Parlin listed first.
- Moosehead
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Moosehead is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moosehead
- Greenville Junction
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Greenville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Shirley Mills
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Shirley Mills is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Mills
- Shirley
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Shirley is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
- Beaver Cove
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Beaver Cove is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Cove
- Population from the 2020 Census: 117 people
- Upper Shirley Corner
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Upper Shirley Corner is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Shirley Corner
- Lower Shirley Corner
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Lower Shirley Corner is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Shirley Corner
- Lily Bay
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Lily Bay is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily Bay
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lake Parlin, see our County-by-County Page for Lake Parlin.
Cemeteries Near Lake Parlin ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lake Parlin.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Lake Parlin - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lake Parlin covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lake Parlin, with the one closest to Lake Parlin listed first.
- St. Josephs Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- St. Josephs Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Flagstaff Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Shirley Mills Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Greenville Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Eustis Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Flagstaff Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
While we didn't find Lake Parlin in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lake Parlin.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Lake Parlin, with the one closest to Lake Parlin listed first.
- Mackamp
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Mackamp is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mackamp
- Long Pond
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Long Pond is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Pond
- West Forks
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Jackman
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Moose River
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Moose River is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moose River
- Population from the 2020 Census: 207 people
- The Forks
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- The Forks is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Forks
- Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
- The Forks has also been known as:
- The Forks Plantation
- Plantation of The Forks
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for The Forks <2>
- Moosehead
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Moosehead is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moosehead
- Holeb
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Holeb is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holeb
- Greenville Junction
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Greenville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Shirley
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Shirley is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
- Shirley Mills
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Shirley Mills is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Mills
- Lowelltown
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Lowelltown is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowelltown
- Lily Bay
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Lily Bay is located in Piscataquis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily Bay
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lake Parlin. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lake Parlin.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Lake Parlin:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Somerset County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Franklin County
- Piscataquis County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Maine
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Lake Parlin, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |