Do you know of Sour Lake ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sour 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 Sour Lake.

Our sources for Sour Lake (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 Sour Lake other than they indicate that Sour Lake would be found somewhere in Jefferson County, Texas.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1877 and closed  in 1880.

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 Sour Lake ...

We found one communities that share the name Sour Lake.

There is one other community in Texas which is also named Sour Lake.

Beyond Texas.

• Communities Located In Texas ...
  • Hardin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sour Lake [Hardin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sour Lake ...

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

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

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

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

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (August 1903)
Published by Southern Pacific Railroad

Road Map for Texas (from Shell Oil, 1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Texas
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Jefferson 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 Jefferson County.