Do you know of Golden Lake ???

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

Our sources for Golden 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 Golden Lake other than they indicate that Golden Lake would be found somewhere in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.

Communities Also Named Golden Lake ...

We found four communities that share the name Golden Lake.

Within Wisconsin, the name Golden Lake is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Mississippi County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Golden Lake [Mississippi County].
- Indiana
  - Steuben 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 Indiana community of Golden Lake [Steuben County].
- North Dakota
  - Steele 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 North Dakota community of Golden Lake [Steele County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Golden Lake.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Golden Lake ...

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

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in Waukesha 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 Waukesha County.

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 Golden 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.