Do you know of Saint Mary's ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Saint Mary's. 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 Saint Mary's.

Our sources for Saint Mary's (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 Saint Mary's other than they indicate that Saint Mary's would be found somewhere in Huerfano County, Colorado.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1867 and closed in 1907.

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 Saint Mary's ...

We found 27 communities that share the name Saint Mary's.

There is one other community in Colorado which is also named Saint Mary's.

Beyond Colorado, we know of another 26 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 26 communities, 24 are located in the United States and six are in Canada.

Communities Located In Colorado ...
- Clear Creek County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Saint Mary's [Clear Creek County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alaska
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Saint Mary's.
- Florida
  - Nassau County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Saint Mary's [Nassau County].
- Georgia
  - Camden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Saint Mary's [Camden County].
- Illinois
  - Effingham County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Saint Mary's [Effingham County].
  - Iroquois County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Saint Mary's [Iroquois County].
- Indiana
  - Floyd County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Saint Mary's [Floyd County].
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Saint Mary's [Franklin County].
  - Vigo County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Saint Mary's [Vigo County].
- Iowa
  - Warren County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Saint Mary's [Warren County].
- Kansas
  - Pottawatomie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Saint Mary's [Pottawatomie County].
  - Sedgwick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Saint Mary's [Sedgwick County].
- Kentucky
  - Lewis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Saint Mary's [Lewis County].
- Michigan
  - Saint Clair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Saint Mary's [Saint Clair County].
- Nevada
  - Pershing County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Saint Mary's [Pershing County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Saint Mary's.
- Nova Scotia
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Saint Mary's.
- Ohio
  - Auglaize County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Saint Mary's [Auglaize County].
- Ontario
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Saint Mary's.
- Pennsylvania
  - Chester County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint Mary's [Chester County].
  - Elk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Saint Mary's [Elk County].
- South Dakota
  - Miner County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Saint Mary's [Miner County].
- Tennessee
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Saint Mary's [Franklin County].
  - Lawrence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Saint Mary's [Lawrence County].
- Texas
  - Refugio County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Saint Mary's [Refugio County].
- West Virginia
  - Pleasants County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Saint Mary's [Pleasants County].
- Wisconsin
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Saint Mary's [Monroe County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Saint Mary's ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Saint Mary's - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Huerfano 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 Huerfano County.

Footnotes ...

<1>

If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Saint Mary's could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

<2>

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

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