Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Detroit Lakes came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Detroit Lakes in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Detroit Lakes. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Detroit Lakes data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Rand McNally Map of Minnesota (1932)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Shell Oil Road Map for Minnesota (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

Detroit Lakes is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

We found Detroit Lakes in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Detroit Lakes for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Detroit Lakes. See our Misc Page for Detroit Lakes for more information.

Railroad Mentions of Detroit Lakes:

Detroit Lakes was mentioned in the following schedules:

Burlington Northern Railroad Time Tables (April 1970)

Canadian National Railroad Time Tables (October 1960)