Do you know of Glen Lake ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Glen 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 Glen Lake.
Our sources for Glen 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 Glen Lake other than they indicate that Glen Lake would be found somewhere in Warren County, New York.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1890 and closed in 1946.
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 Glen Lake ...
We found two communities that share the name Glen Lake.
Within New York, the name Glen Lake is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Glen Lake ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Glen Lake:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Glen Lake - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)
Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Glen Lake.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 36/29267 (Place Name: Glen Lake)
County: Warren (FIPS State/County: 36/113)
Class: U6
Identifies a populated place (ie- Glen Lake) that is wholly or substantially located outside the boundaries of any incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) that has an authoritative common name recognized by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Warren 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 Warren County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |