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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Turtle Lake came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Turtle Lake in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Turtle Lake. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: When we started collecting data about Turtle Lake, we were inconsistent about keeping track of where that data came from. As a result, this list of references and mentions is probably incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Turtle Lake:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station, an Express Office

Shell Oil Road Map for Wisconsin (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

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

We found Turtle Lake in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Turtle Lake for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Turtle Lake. See our Misc Page for Turtle Lake for more information.


Railroad Mentions of Turtle Lake:

Turtle Lake was mentioned in the following schedule:

Canadian Pacific Railroad Time Tables (October 1899)

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/