Do you know of Lake Village ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lake Village. 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 Lake Village.
Our sources for Lake Village (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 Lake Village other than they indicate that Lake Village would be found somewhere in Belknap County, New Hampshire.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1843 and closed in 1891.
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 Lake Village ...
We found eight communities that share the name Lake Village.
Within New Hampshire, the name Lake Village is unique.
Beyond New Hampshire, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Chicot County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lake Village [Chicot County].
- California
- Riverside County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Lake Village [Riverside County].
- Indiana
- Newton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lake Village [Newton County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Tammany Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Lake Village [Saint Tammany Parish].
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Lake Village [Anne Arundel County].
- Prince George's 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 Maryland community of Lake Village [Prince George's County].
- South Carolina
- Lexington County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lake Village [Lexington County].
- Tennessee
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lake Village [Hamilton County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lake Village ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lake Village:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lake Village - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Belknap 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 Belknap County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Lake Village 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |