Do you know of La Porte ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about La Porte. 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 La Porte.
We found mention of La Porte as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Larimer 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.
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 La Porte ...
We found four communities that share the name La Porte.
Within Colorado, the name La Porte is unique.
Beyond Colorado, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Plumas County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of La Porte [Plumas County].
- Indiana
- LaPorte County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of La Porte [LaPorte County].
- Kansas
- Texas
- Harris County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of La Porte [Harris County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for La Porte ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about La Porte:
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
La Porte was listed as La Porte Courthouse.
The FIPS database contains an entry for La Porte.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 08/43275 (Place Name: La Porte)
County: Larimer (FIPS State/County: 08/069)
Class: X3
More Orphans in Larimer 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 Larimer 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 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 La Porte 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. |