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Do you know of Gull Lake ???

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

Our sources for Gull 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 Gull Lake other than they indicate that Gull Lake would be found somewhere in Barry County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1867 and closed  in 1904.

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 Gull Lake ...

We found four communities that share the name Gull Lake.

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

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

  • Communities Located In Michigan ...
    • Kalamazoo County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Gull Lake [Kalamazoo County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Gull Lake.
    • Manitoba
      • Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Gull Lake.
    • Saskatchewan
      • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Gull Lake.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gull Lake ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Gull Lake - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

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

More Orphans in  Barry 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 Barry County.

Ackers Point 
Algonquin LakeNashs
 North Irving
Baltimore 
BarryvilleO'Donnell
BlairOrangeville Mills
Brouard 
 Parmalee
Carlton CentrePoplar Beach
CastletonPritchardville
Ceylon 
Crooked LakeQuimby
  
FreesportSheridan
FultonShultz
  
GaskillThornapple
Gerkey 
Glass CreekWall Lake
Gun LakeWilliams
  
MiloYankee Spring

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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