Do you know of Clear Lake ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Clear 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 Clear Lake.<1>

We found mention of Clear Lake as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fort Bend County, Texas.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1849 and closed in 1851.

Communities Also Named Clear Lake ...

We found 23 communities that share the name Clear Lake.

There are two communities within Texas that are also named Clear Lake.

Beyond Texas, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, 21 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

Communities Located In Texas ...
- Collin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Clear Lake [Collin County].
- Harris County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Clear Lake [Harris County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Clear Lake [Grant County].
  - Mississippi County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Clear Lake [Mississippi County].
- California
  - Modoc County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Clear Lake [Modoc County].
- Florida
  - Alachua County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Clear Lake [Alachua County].
- Illinois
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Clear Lake [Cass County].
  - Sangamon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Clear Lake [Sangamon County].
- Indiana
  - Steuben County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Clear Lake [Steuben County].
- Iowa
  - Cerro Gordo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Clear Lake [Cerro Gordo County].
- Louisiana
  - Natchitoches Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Clear Lake [Natchitoches Parish].
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Clear Lake.
- Michigan
  - Hillsdale County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Clear Lake [Hillsdale County].
  - Ogemaw County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Clear Lake [Ogemaw County].
  - Saint Joseph County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Clear Lake [Saint Joseph County].
- Minnesota
  - Sherburne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Clear Lake [Sherburne County].
- Oklahoma
  - Beaver County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Clear Lake [Beaver County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Clear Lake.
- Oregon
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Clear Lake [Marion County].
- South Dakota
  - Deuel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Clear Lake [Deuel County].
- Utah
  - Millard County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Clear Lake [Millard County].
- Washington
  - Skagit County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Clear Lake [Skagit County].
- Wisconsin
  - Polk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Clear Lake [Polk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Clear Lake ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Clear Lake:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in Fort Bend 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 Fort Bend County.

Big Creek
	Sartartia
Dyer	Smithers Lake
	Staffordsville
Hanson	Sugarland Junction
House
	Valley Lodge
The Meadows	Vossville

Pillot	Walker
Pryor	Whites
	Wimberly
Randon

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.
<3>	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 Clear Lake 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.
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/