Do you know of North Lake ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of North Lake, so we are uncertain whether North Lake is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that North Lake would be found somewhere in King County, Washington.

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 North Lake ...

We found ten communities that share the name North Lake.

Within Washington, the name North Lake is unique.

Beyond Washington, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, eight are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Troup County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of North Lake [Troup County].
- Maine
  - Aroostook County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maine community of North Lake [Aroostook County].
- Michigan
  - Lapeer County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of North Lake [Lapeer County].
  - Marquette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of North Lake [Marquette County].
  - Ontonagon 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 North Lake [Ontonagon County].
  - Van Buren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of North Lake [Van Buren County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of North Lake.
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of North Lake.
- Texas
  - Bandera County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of North Lake [Bandera County].
- Wisconsin
  - Waukesha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of North Lake [Waukesha County].

More Orphans in King 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 King County.

Alpental	Lake
Andover	Lakeland North
Argo	Lakeland South
Arrowhead	Lakes

Beaux Arts	Magnolia
Black River Junction	Marine Hills
Black River	McKay
Boulevard	Meadow Point
Bridle Trail	Medina Heights
Bryn Mawr - Skyway	Monohan Station

Canton	North City - Ridgecrest
Cardmoor
Carlyle	Olney
Cascade Vista	Olympia
Chelsea Park	Osborn
Cherry Crest
Cherry Gardens	Pialschie
Cherry Valley	Poineer Square
Cole	Poverty Bay
Concora
Conifer View	Queensgate
	Quendall
Denny Park
	Ravenna Park
Eagle Gorge	Renton Highlands
Earlington	Rhodes
East Auburn	Richmond
East Hill - Meridian
East Redmond	Sallal Prairie
East Union	Sandy Shores
Elkcoal	Scenic
Emerald Hills	Scopa
	Sea First
Federal	Sherwood Forest
Ferndale	Slaughter
Forest Park	Smith's Cove
Fort Lawton	Steel's
	Sun Village
Gilman
Graham's	Talbot
	Times Square
Horizon View	Tolt
Hot Springs	Totem Lake
	Trend
Indian
Inglewood - Finn Hill	Valhalla
Inglewood Hills	Valley Ridge
	Vashon Center
Keith	Veazey
Kennedy
Kummer Junction	West Duwamish
	West Federal Way
Lake Alice	Westfair
Lake Burien Heights	Westwood
Lake Dolloff	White Center - Shorewood
Lake Forest North	White River
Lake Joy	Wieser
Lake Leota	Woodmont
Lake Meridian
Lake Retreat	Yesler
Lake Sawyer
Lake Wilderness	Zenith - Saltwater

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 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 North 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.