Do you know of Arkansas Junction ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Arkansas Junction. 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 Arkansas Junction.

Our sources for Arkansas Junction (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Arkansas Junction other than they indicate that Arkansas Junction would be found somewhere in Lake County, Colorado.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1918.

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 Arkansas Junction ...

We found one communities that share the name Arkansas Junction.

Within Colorado, the name Arkansas Junction is unique.

Beyond Colorado, there is another community also named Arkansas Junction in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New Mexico
    • Lea County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Arkansas Junction [Lea County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Arkansas Junction ...

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

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Arkansas Junction - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Colorado & Utah
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 1995
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Lake County ...

Can you help?

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 Lake County.