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Welcome to Brookfield ...So far, we found very little information about Brookfield. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Brookfield to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Brookfield, please Contact Us. Brookfield would have been located within present day Baca County<2>. The location of Brookfield has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Brookfield, you might consider that their post office opened in 1887. While the community is gone, the present day location for Brookfield is 4,570 feet [1,393 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the elevation of Brookfield is about ¾ mile [or ~1½ km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Brookfield was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you leave Brookfield and travel south, you will leave Mountain Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT). If Brookfield still existed, it would have been in the (719) area code. Communities Also Named Brookfield ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 39 communities that are also named Brookfield - they are located in Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Manitoba, Maryland (2), Massachusetts, Michigan (2), Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York (2), Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina (2), Nova Scotia, Ohio (3), Ontario (2), Pennsylvania (3), Prince Edward Island, Rhode Island, Tennessee (2), Utah, Vermont, Virginia (2), Washington and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Brookfield. Communities near Brookfield ...We have created a list of 5 communities that are near Brookfield.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Brookfield. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brookfield. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Brookfield. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brookfield. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Brookfield. See our Newspapers Page for Brookfield. Adding Brookfield to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Brookfield in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Brookfield was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Brookfield in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Brookfield. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/ Footnotes ...
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