Do you know of Mud Lake ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1912.

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 Mud Lake ...

We found five communities that share the name Mud Lake.

Within Michigan, the name Mud Lake is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Saint Francis County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Mud Lake [Saint Francis County].
  • Idaho
    • Jefferson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Mud Lake [Jefferson County].
  • Montana
    • Flathead County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Mud Lake [Flathead County].
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Mud Lake.
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Mud Lake.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mud Lake ...

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

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)

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

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

More Orphans in  Alcona 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 Alcona County.