Lake Fork is an

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along

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History

Lake Fork was laid out in 1881. The community is named after ''Buffalo Lake'', a now-vanished prairie wetland in southern

on the upper reaches of the Lake Fork of Salt Creek. A post office called Lake Fork has been in operation since 1881.

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