Do you know of West Lake ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about West 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 West Lake.<1>
Our sources for West 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 West Lake other than they indicate that West Lake would be found somewhere in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1871 and closed in 1905.
Communities Also Named West Lake ...
We found six communities that share the name West Lake.
Within Minnesota, the name West Lake is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, four are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of West Lake [Hamilton County].
- Georgia
- Douglas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of West Lake [Douglas County].
- Illinois
- Louisiana
- Orleans Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of West Lake [Orleans Parish].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of West Lake.
- Florida
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for West Lake ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about West Lake:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for West Lake - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Kandiyohi 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 Kandiyohi County.
| Aspelin | Irving |
| Burbank | Kandiyohi Station |
| Colfax | Lake Andrew |
| Lake Elizabeth | |
| Green Lake | Lintonville |
| Grue Station | |
| Grue | Ringville |
| Haawick | Saint Johns |
| Harrison | Schultzville |
| Holum | |
| Warner |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 West 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |