Do you know of Colorado City ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Colorado City. 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 Colorado City.
Our sources for Colorado City (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 Colorado City other than they indicate that Colorado City would be found somewhere in El Paso County, Colorado.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1860 and closed in 1917.
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 Colorado City ...
We found four communities that share the name Colorado City.
There are two communities within Colorado that are also named Colorado City.
Beyond Colorado, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Colorado ...
- Arapahoe 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 Colorado community of Colorado City [Arapahoe County].
- Pueblo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Colorado City [Pueblo County].
- Arapahoe County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Mohave County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Colorado City [Mohave County].
- Texas
- Mitchell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Colorado City [Mitchell County].
- Arizona
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Colorado City ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Colorado City:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Colorado City - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Colorado City was listed as Colorado City Courthouse.
The FIPS database contains an entry for Colorado City.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 08/15880 (Place Name: Colorado City (Rr Name For West End))
County: El Paso (FIPS State/County: 08/041)
Class: X4
More Orphans in El Paso 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 El Paso County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Colorado City 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |