Do you know of Box Elder ???

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

Our sources for Box Elder (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Box Elder other than they indicate that Box Elder would be found somewhere in Larimer County, Colorado.

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 Box Elder ...

We found nine communities that share the name Box Elder.

Within Colorado, the name Box Elder is unique.

Beyond Colorado, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Montana
  - Cascade County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Box Elder [Cascade County].
  - Chouteau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Box Elder [Chouteau County].
  - Fergus County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Box Elder [Fergus County].
  - Phillips County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Box Elder [Phillips County].
- Nebraska
  - Red Willow 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 Nebraska community of Box Elder [Red Willow County].
- South Dakota
  - Pennington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Box Elder [Pennington County].
- Tennessee
  - Hardin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Box Elder [Hardin County].
- Utah
  - Box Elder 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 Utah community of Box Elder [Box Elder County].
- Virginia
  - Suffolk City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Box Elder [Suffolk City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Box Elder ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Box Elder - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Larimer County ...

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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 Larimer County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Box Elder 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.