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Welcome to Liberty ...So far, we found very little information about Liberty. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Liberty to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Liberty, please Contact Us. Liberty would have been located within present day Saguache County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Liberty, you might consider that their post office opened in 1900. While the community is gone, the present day location for Liberty is 8,270 feet [2,521 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the elevation of Liberty is about 1½ mile [or ~2½ km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Liberty was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time If Liberty still existed, it would have been in the (719) area code. Communities Also Named Liberty ...While we believe that this Liberty is located in Saguache County, we know of another 3 Colorado communities named Liberty. Those communities are located in the following counties: Baca, Rio Grande and Weld County. Beyond Colorado, there are 127 communities that are also named Liberty - they are located in Alabama (7), Arizona, Arkansas (5), California (2), Delaware, Florida (2), Georgia (2), Idaho (2), Illinois (4), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (4), Kentucky (7), Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan (2), Mississippi (5), Missouri (3), Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico (3), New York, North Carolina (4), Ohio (5), Oklahoma (6), Oregon (3), Pennsylvania (4), Rhode Island, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, Tennessee (17), Texas (10), Utah (2), Virginia (6), Washington (2), West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Liberty. Communities near Liberty ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Liberty.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Liberty. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Liberty. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Liberty. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Liberty. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Liberty. See our Newspapers Page for Liberty. Adding Liberty to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Liberty in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Liberty was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> For more details, see References and Mentions for Liberty. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Saguache County: www.slv.org/saguachecounty/ The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/ Footnotes ...
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