Do you know of Rush Lake ???

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

We found mention of Rush Lake as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1848 and closed  in 1866.

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 Rush Lake ...

We found two communities that share the name Rush Lake.

There is one other community in Wisconsin which is also named Rush Lake.

Beyond Wisconsin, there is another community also named Rush Lake in the United States and Canada.

• Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
  • Winnebago County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Rush Lake [Winnebago County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Saskatchewan
    • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Rush Lake.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Rush Lake ...

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Fond du Lac 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 Fond du Lac County.