Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Alamosa came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Alamosa 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 Alamosa. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

Place Names in Colorado: Why 700 Communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin
Written by: Dawson, John Frank
J.F. Dawson Publishing Company, 1954
(Document found on Google Books)

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

We found Alamosa in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Alamosa for more information.

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