Do you know of Buick ???

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

Our sources for Buick (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 Buick other than they indicate that Buick would be found somewhere in Elbert County, Colorado.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1916 and closed  in 1925.

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 Buick ...

We found two communities that share the name Buick.

Within Colorado, the name Buick is unique.

Beyond Colorado, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Buick.
  • Missouri
    • Iron County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Buick [Iron County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Buick ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Place Names in Colorado: Why 700 Communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin
Written by: Dawson, John Frank
J.F. Dawson Publishing Company, 1954
(Document found on Google Books)

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad

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 Buick.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 08/10325   (Place Name: Buick)

County: Elbert     (FIPS State/County: 08/039)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Buick) 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  Elbert 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 Elbert County.