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Do you know of Shields ???

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

Our sources for Shields (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 Shields other than they indicate that Shields would be found somewhere in Arapahoe County, Colorado.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 and closed  in 1894.

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 Shields ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name Shields.

Within Colorado, the name Shields is unique.

Beyond Colorado, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Shields.
    • Georgia
      • Morgan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Shields [Morgan County].
    • Illinois
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Shields [Jefferson County].
    • Indiana
      • Jackson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Shields [Jackson County].
    • Kansas
      • Jefferson 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 Kansas community of Shields [Jefferson County].
      • Lane County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Shields [Lane County].
      • Shawnee 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 Kansas community of Shields [Shawnee County].
    • Kentucky
      • Harlan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Shields [Harlan County].
    • Michigan
      • Saginaw County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Shields [Saginaw County].
    • Montana
      • Park County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Shields [Park County].
    • North Dakota
      • Grant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Shields [Grant County].
    • Ohio
      • Belmont 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 Ohio community of Shields [Belmont 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 Shields.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Allegheny County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Shields [Allegheny County].
    • Saskatchewan
      • Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Shields.
    • Texas
      • Coleman County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Shields [Coleman County].
    • Virginia
      • Accomack County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Shields [Accomack County].
      • Prince Edward County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Shields [Prince Edward County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Shields ...

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

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 Shields - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Arapahoe 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 Arapahoe County.

Arapahoe EastKenwood
ArapahoeKingsborough South
Argo JunctionKirk
Argo Park 
ArgoLansing
ArickareeLeyner Spur
 Linden
BarnumLittleton Southeast
BarrLogan
BennettLyman
Berkeley 
BerlinMagnolia
BoulderManchester
BrightonMelvin
BrookridgeMilitary Junction
BurnhamMilitary Park
 Military Post
Canon CityMissouri City
ChaddsfordMontclair
CherrelynMooreville
Cherry CreekMount Vernon
Cherrywood VillageMountain City
Colorado City 
Columbine KnollsNevada
CondonNewton
CopeNob Hill
CorcoranNorth Cherry Creek Valley
Coronado 
CrestmoorOakes
 Orchard Plaza
DerblayOro City
DerbyOverland Park
  
Eastridge SouthPetersburgh
Ebert 
 Quincy
Fort Wise 
FoxRembrandt Place
FriendRidgeview Hills
 Riverside
Gateway 
GlobevilleScranton
Grant SmelterSheridan Junction
 Skyline
HaleSouth Denver
HamiltonSouthwind
HarmanSouthwood
HarrisSpanish Bar
HarrisburgStrasburgh
Hatchery 
HendersonTarryall
HeritageThurman
HighlandsTimbers
HowellsTownsend
Huntsville 
 University Park
IdaliaUtah Junction
Independence 
IntheValverde
IrondaleVista Verde
Island Station 
 Wales
JeffersonWalnut Hills
JerseyWashburn
JohnstownWatkins
  

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 Shields 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/









 

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