This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TGB.2ACE/619.1 Message Board Post: The Minnesota Historical Society has made available online a searchable index of a book by Warren Upham which includes many of the older, defunct, place names around Minnesota: http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/ Enter "Flak" in the "SEARCH FOR A NAME" box. The results include a link for "Crow Wing - Flak post office". Follow that and you will be rewarded with: FLAK, a post office, 1894-1926, in Maple Grove Township, section 3, named for birthplace in Norway of its first postmaster, Peter Alberts. Here's a map of Crow Wing county showing where Maple Grove township is, east of Brainerd: http://www.co.crow-wing.mn.us/county%20roads.pdf Here's a map of Maple Grove township, showing where section 3 is: http://www.co.crow-wing.mn.us/E911/maps/maple_grove_twp.pdf Hope that helps.