Do you know of Pine River ???

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

Our sources for Pine River (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 Pine River other than they indicate that Pine River would be found somewhere in La Plata County, Colorado.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1895.

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 Pine River ...

We found eight communities that share the name Pine River.

Within Colorado, the name Pine River is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Manitoba
  - Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Pine River.
- Michigan
  - Arenac County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Pine River [Arenac County].
  - Chippewa 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 Pine River [Chippewa County].
- Minnesota
  - Cass County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Pine River [Cass County].
- New Hampshire
  - Carroll County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Pine River [Carroll County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Pine River.
- Wisconsin
  - Lincoln County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Pine River [Lincoln County].
  - Waushara County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Pine River [Waushara County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pine River ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

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

More Orphans in La Plata 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 La Plata County.

Ah Wilderness
	Needleton
Bocea
	Paradox Summit
College Heights	Parrott
	Pine Ridge
Dix	Porter

Home Ranch	Sunnyside

Indian Agency	Tamarron
	Teft
LaPlata Junction
	Vallejo
Mancos

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Pine River 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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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/