Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Parks came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Parks in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Parks. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Parks data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Parks:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Parks. See our Misc Page for Parks for more information.