Do you know of Fife Lake ???

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

Our sources for Fife 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 Fife Lake other than they indicate that Fife Lake would be found somewhere in Grand Traverse County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1875.

Communities Also Named Fife Lake ...

We found two communities that share the name Fife Lake.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Fife Lake.

Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Fife Lake in the United States and Canada.

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Kalkaska County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Fife Lake [Kalkaska County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Fife Lake.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fife Lake ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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)

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Grand Traverse County ...

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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 Grand Traverse 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>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/