Do you know of Round Lake ???

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

We found mention of Round Lake as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wexford 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 1882 and closed in 1888.

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 Round Lake ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Round Lake.

There are four communities within Michigan that are also named Round Lake.

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

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Emmet County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Round Lake [Emmet County].
- Lenawee County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Round Lake [Lenawee County].
- Mason County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Round Lake [Mason County].
- Missaukee County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Round Lake [Missaukee County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Round Lake.
- Florida
  - Jackson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Round Lake [Jackson County].
- Georgia
  - Brooks County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Round Lake [Brooks County].
- Illinois
  - Lake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Round Lake [Lake County].
- Indiana
  - Noble County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Round Lake [Noble County].
- Minnesota
  - Nobles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Round Lake [Nobles County].
  - Ramsey County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Round Lake [Ramsey County].
- Mississippi
  - Bolivar County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Round Lake [Bolivar County].
- New York
  - Saratoga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Round Lake [Saratoga County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Round Lake.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Round Lake.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Round Lake ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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)

More Orphans in Wexford 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 Wexford County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Round 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.

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

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