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Do you know of Brown Canon ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brown Canon. 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 Brown Canon.<1>

We found mention of Brown Canon as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Chaffee County, Colorado.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1904 and closed  in 1908.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brown Canon ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Colorado & Utah
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 1995
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Brown Canon.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 08/09390   (Place Name: Brown Canon)

County: Chaffee     (FIPS State/County: 08/015)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Chaffee 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 Chaffee County.

Adobe ParkMahonville
ArenaMcGee
 Midway Tank
CalumetMidway
CascadeMissouri Park
CentrevilleMount Princeton
Chaffee 
CharcoalOtto
Cottonwood Springs 
 Poncha Junction
Divide 
 Raspberry
Fisher 
 Sand Park
Gray'sSchwanders
 Shauano Vista
HarpsSwissvale
Haywood Springs 
Hecla JunctionThompson's
Heywood 
HigginsUte Heights
  
KeeneVenice
  
Lady MurphyYale
  

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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