Do you know of Eilers ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Eilers. 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 Eilers.<1>
Our source wasn't clear whether Eilers was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Eilers would be found somewhere in Lake County, Colorado.
Communities Also Named Eilers ...
We found two communities that share the name Eilers.
Within Colorado, the name Eilers is unique.
Beyond Colorado, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Eilers ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Eilers:
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 Eilers.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 08/23465 (Place Name: Eilers)
County: Lake (FIPS State/County: 08/065)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Eilers) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
More Orphans in Lake 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 Lake County.
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. |