Do you know of Clear Lake ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Clear Lake was 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 Clear Lake would be found somewhere in Hillsdale County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named Clear Lake ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Clear Lake.

There are two communities within Michigan that are also named Clear Lake.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, twenty are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Ogemaw 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 Michigan community of Clear Lake [Ogemaw County].
- Saint Joseph 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 Michigan community of Clear Lake [Saint Joseph County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Clear Lake [Grant County].
  - Mississippi County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Clear Lake [Mississippi County].
- California
  - Modoc 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 California community of Clear Lake [Modoc County].
- Florida
  - Alachua 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 Florida community of Clear Lake [Alachua County].
- Illinois
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Clear Lake [Cass County].
  - Sangamon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Clear Lake [Sangamon County].
- Indiana
  - Steuben County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Clear Lake [Steuben County].
- Iowa
  - Cerro Gordo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Clear Lake [Cerro Gordo County].
- Louisiana
  - Natchitoches Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Clear Lake [Natchitoches Parish].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Clear Lake.
- Minnesota
  - Sherburne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Clear Lake [Sherburne County].
- Oklahoma
  - Beaver County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Clear Lake [Beaver County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Clear Lake.
- Oregon
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Clear Lake [Marion County].
- South Dakota
  - Deuel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Clear Lake [Deuel County].
- Texas
  - Collin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Clear Lake [Collin County].
  - Harris County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Clear Lake [Harris County].
- Utah
  - Millard County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Clear Lake [Millard County].
- Washington
  - Skagit County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Clear Lake [Skagit County].
- Wisconsin
  - Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Clear Lake [Polk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clear Lake ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Clear Lake:

Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in Hillsdale 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 Hillsdale County.

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 Clear 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.