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Welcome to Crescent Lake ...

Crescent Lake is located in Klamath County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Crescent Lake, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1927.

A typical abbreviation for Crescent Lake: Crescent Lk.

Crescent Lake is 4,790 feet [1,460 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Crescent Lake is about 1 mile [or ~1½ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Crescent Lake lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Crescent Lake: 541 & 458<3>

Communities Also Named Crescent Lake ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named Crescent Lake - they are located in Maine, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Saskatchewan.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Crescent Lake.

Communities near Crescent Lake ...

We have created a list of 8 communities that are near Crescent Lake.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We're compiling a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Crescent Lake. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Crescent Lake.

We have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Crescent Lake. See our Newspapers Page for Crescent Lake.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Crescent Lake ...

Looking for more information about Crescent Lake? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

In addition to the Tourism page for Crescent Lake, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Crescent Lake.

Adding Crescent Lake to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Crescent Lake in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Crescent Lake was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Crescent Lake post office opened in 1927.

We also found Crescent Lake mentioned on a train schedule titled Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Crescent Lake.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Oregon's counties, including Klamath, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Crescent Lake - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 541 code has been Overlayed with the 458 area code. New phone numbers in the Crescent Lake area will be assigned with one of these codes: 541 or 458. As a result, placing a call in the Crescent Lake area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/