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Do you know of Flat Lake ???

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

Our source wasn't clear whether Flat 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 Flat Lake would be found somewhere in Oscoda County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named Flat Lake ...

We found one communities that share the name Flat Lake.

Within Michigan, the name Flat Lake is unique.

Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Flat Lake in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Flat Lake.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Flat Lake ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Flat 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  Oscoda 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 Oscoda County.

Big CreekMaple Grove
BiggsMarsh
 McCollum
ChurchMillen
Comins 
 North Branch
Dew 
 Odessa
Fitzpatrick 
 Pingree
Grams Crossing 
 Royce
HicksRyno
Hill 
 Sherwood Corners
ImlaySnyder
Indian LakeSpoor
  
KaneTong
 Twin Lake Junction
LeLoneTyrrell
Lymburn 
 Wiggins
Mack CityWood

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.