Do you know of Bent Canyon ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bent Canyon. 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 Bent Canyon.<1> Our sources for Bent Canyon (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 Bent Canyon other than they indicate that Bent Canyon would be found somewhere in Las Animas County, Colorado. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1872 and closed in 1902. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bent Canyon ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bent Canyon: 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 Bent Canyon - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned More Orphans in Las Animas 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 Las Animas County. Footnotes ...
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