Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Rainbow Lake came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Rainbow Lake 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 Rainbow Lake. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

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.

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

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

Railroad Mentions of Rainbow Lake:

Rainbow Lake was mentioned in the following schedule:

New York Central Railroad Time Table (July 1902)