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Welcome to San Miguel ...So far, we found very little information about San Miguel. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added San Miguel to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with San Miguel, please Contact Us. San Miguel would have been located within present day San Miguel County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of San Miguel, you might consider that their post office opened in 1877. While the community is gone, the present day location for San Miguel is 8,750 feet [2,667 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the altitude of San Miguel is about 1¾ mile [or ~2¾ km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where San Miguel was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time The Area Code where San Miguel was located: 970 Communities Also Named San Miguel ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Colorado communities named San Miguel: This one is located in San Miguel County and the other is located in Las Animas County. Beyond Colorado, there are 12 communities that are also named San Miguel - they are located in Arizona (2), California (4), New Mexico (4) and Texas. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for San Miguel. Communities near San Miguel ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near San Miguel.
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 San Miguel. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for San Miguel. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of San Miguel. 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 San Miguel. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around San Miguel. See our Newspapers Page for San Miguel. Adding San Miguel to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of San Miguel 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 San Miguel was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found San Miguel in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for San Miguel. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for San Miguel County: www.sanmiguelcounty.org/ The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/ Footnotes ...
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