GNIS name record: Green Lake

Summary

This record preserves the GNIS name row Green Lake for the current feature Greenes Lake (feature id 627366). The held extract classifies the row as variant. It is a searchable catalog record, not by itself a claim about the date of local speech, the name’s etymology, or the historical process by which one form replaced another.

Evidence and limits

The row’s citation and publication metadata are retained in the sources: block. GNIS is useful for joining historical forms to a current feature, but a map, newspaper, field note, or community record is still needed to establish who used the name and when. The companion feature article, when present, is the place-level record rather than a substitute for this source row.

Open questions

• Which primary map or local record independently attests this exact form?
• Is the form a spelling variant, a superseded name, or a feature-identification artifact in the GNIS compilation?

See also

• Historical toponymy and map change