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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Sour Lake came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Sour Lake in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Sour Lake. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Sour Lake:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

We found Sour Lake in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Sour Lake for more information.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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