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Do you know of Hecla Junction ???

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

We found mention of Hecla Junction as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Chaffee County, Colorado.

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.

Communities Also Named Hecla Junction ...

We found one communities that share the name Hecla Junction.

Within Colorado, the name Hecla Junction is unique.

Beyond Colorado, there is another community also named Hecla Junction in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Bay 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 Michigan community of Hecla Junction [Bay County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hecla Junction ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Hecla Junction - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

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 Park 
ArenaMcGee
 Midway Tank
Brown CanonMidway
 Missouri Park
CalumetMount Princeton
Cascade 
CentrevilleOtto
Chaffee 
CharcoalPoncha Junction
Cottonwood Springs 
 Raspberry
Divide 
 Sand Park
FisherSchwanders
 Shauano Vista
Gray'sSwissvale
  
HarpsThompson's
Haywood Springs 
HigginsUte Heights
  
KeeneVenice
  
Lady MurphyYale

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Hecla Junction 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.









 

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