Do you know of San Rafael ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about San Rafael. 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 San Rafael.

Our sources for San Rafael (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 San Rafael other than they indicate that San Rafael would be found somewhere in Conejos County, Colorado.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 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 San Rafael ...

We found four communities that share the name San Rafael.

Within Colorado, the name San Rafael is unique.

Beyond Colorado, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arizona
    • Pima County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of San Rafael [Pima County].
  • California
    • Marin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Rafael [Marin County].
  • New Mexico
    • Cibola County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Rafael [Cibola County].
    • San Miguel County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Rafael [San Miguel County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for San Rafael ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for San Rafael - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

The FIPS database contains an entry for San Rafael.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 08/68270   (Place Name: San Rafael)

County: Conejos     (FIPS State/County: 08/021)

Class: X3

More Orphans in  Conejos 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 Conejos County.