Do you know of Prospect Lake ???

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

Our sources for Prospect 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 Prospect Lake other than they indicate that Prospect Lake would be found somewhere in Van Buren County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1851 and closed  in 1900.

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 Prospect Lake ...

We found one communities that share the name Prospect Lake.

Within Michigan, the name Prospect Lake is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Prospect Lake.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Prospect Lake ...

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

More Orphans in  Van Buren 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 Van Buren County.