Do you know of Lake City ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lake City. 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 City.
Our sources for Lake City (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 City other than they indicate that Lake City would be found somewhere in Minnehaha County, South Dakota.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1877 and closed in 1903.
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 City ...
We found 26 communities that share the name Lake City.
There is one other community in South Dakota which is also named Lake City.
Beyond South Dakota, we know of another 25 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In South Dakota ...
- Marshall County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Lake City [Marshall County].
- Marshall County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Craighead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lake City [Craighead County].
- California
- Colorado
- Hinsdale County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Lake City [Hinsdale County].
- Florida
- Columbia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lake City [Columbia County].
- Georgia
- Clayton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lake City [Clayton County].
- Illinois
- Moultrie County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lake City [Moultrie County].
- Iowa
- Calhoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Lake City [Calhoun County].
- Kansas
- Barber County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lake City [Barber County].
- Franklin 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 Kansas community of Lake City [Franklin County].
- Kentucky
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lake City [Livingston County].
- Maine
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Lake City [Knox County].
- Michigan
- Missaukee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lake City [Missaukee County].
- Minnesota
- Wabasha County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Lake City [Wabasha County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lake City [Jackson County].
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Holt County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Lake City [Holt County].
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- Florence County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Lake City [Florence County].
- Texas
- San Patricio County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lake City [San Patricio County].
- Washington
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lake City ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lake City:
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 City - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Minnehaha 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 Minnehaha 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 City 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/ |