Do you know of Loon Lake ???

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

We found mention of Loon Lake as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Iosco County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named Loon Lake ...

We found nine communities that share the name Loon Lake.

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

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

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Oakland County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Loon Lake [Oakland County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Loon Lake.
- Illinois
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Loon Lake [Lake County].
- Indiana
  - Noble County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Loon Lake [Noble County].
- Maine
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Loon Lake [Franklin County].
- New York
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Loon Lake [Franklin County].
- Nova Scotia
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Loon Lake.
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Loon Lake.
- Washington
  - Stevens County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Loon Lake [Stevens County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Loon Lake ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Iosco 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 Iosco County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Loon 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.