Do you know of Lake Harbor ???

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

We found mention of Lake Harbor as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Muskegon County, Michigan.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1871 and closed  in 1922.

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 Lake Harbor ...

We found one communities that share the name Lake Harbor.

Within Michigan, the name Lake Harbor is unique.

Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Lake Harbor in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Florida
    • Palm Beach County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lake Harbor [Palm Beach County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lake Harbor ...

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

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

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)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Lake Harbor.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 26/44640   (Place Name: Lake Harbor)

County: Muskegon     (FIPS State/County: 26/121)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Lake Harbor) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Muskegon 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 Muskegon County.