Do you know of Lake Fork ???

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

We found mention of Lake Fork as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Wood County, Texas.

Communities Also Named Lake Fork ...

We found five communities that share the name Lake Fork.

Within Texas, the name Lake Fork is unique.

Beyond Texas, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Idaho
  - Valley County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Lake Fork [Valley County].
- Illinois
  - Logan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Lake Fork [Logan County].
- Kansas
  - Lake Fork #
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lake Fork.
- Missouri
  - Osage County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Lake Fork [Osage County].
- Ohio
  - Ashland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lake Fork [Ashland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lake Fork ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lake Fork - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in Wood 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 Wood County.

Andrews	Parryville
	Peach
Chalybeate
	Redland
Debbie	Richardsville
	Rock Hill
Hoyt
	Scroggins
Macks	Smilax
Merrimac	Speer
Mikado	Stagner
Mount Enterprise	Stormville

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Fork 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.