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Do you know of South Canon ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about South Canon. 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 South Canon. Our sources for South Canon (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 South Canon other than they indicate that South Canon would be found somewhere in Garfield County, Colorado. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1905 and closed in 1916. 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 South Canon ...We found one communities that share the name South Canon. There is one other community in Colorado which is also named South Canon. Beyond Colorado.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Canon ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about South Canon: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for South Canon - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned More Orphans in Garfield 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 Garfield County.
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