Do you know of Whitmore Lake ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1854.

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 Whitmore Lake ...

We found one communities that share the name Whitmore Lake.

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

Beyond Michigan.

• Communities Located In Michigan ...
  • Livingston County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Whitmore Lake [Livingston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Whitmore Lake ...

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Washtenaw 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 Washtenaw County.