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American Lake, Washington

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Welcome to American Lake ...

Although we found mention of American Lake during our research, we have little information about it.^<1> Given the context of how American Lake was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it's a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists.

While we are confident that American Lake was located in Pierce County, we don't know its actual location within the county.

We've added American Lake to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of American Lake - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with American Lake, please Contact Us.

A typical abbreviation for American Lake: American Lk.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that American Lake might be (or was) located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

See Our Genealogy Helper Page ...

We have a couple of sections that should be of interest to those chasing their genealogy.

We have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around American Lake.

These sections can be found on our Genealogy Helper Page for American Lake:

Search for Local Businesses ...

We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

Business Owners: To appear in the above search results, your business will need to be listed with the Google Places service. Please use the below link to learn about and register for the free service.

If you find an error or if your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to register your business or report an error. We simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results. Only a registered owner/operator can add their business or correct mistakes - we can not do it for you.

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About Pierce County

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Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Pierce County: www.co.pierce.wa.us/

The official website for State of Washington: www.access.wa.gov/

Footnotes ...

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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. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past American Lake and then turned east". While American Lake could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added American Lake as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. The community might still exist or it might have existed for just a short period of time. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, families in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc.

Also keep in mind that American 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.