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Do you know of Summit Park ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Summit Park. 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 Summit Park.<1>

Our sources for Summit Park (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 Summit Park other than they indicate that Summit Park would be found somewhere in El Paso County, Colorado.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1873 and closed  in 1892.

Communities Also Named Summit Park ...

We found five communities that share the name Summit Park.

Within Colorado, the name Summit Park is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Summit Park [Baltimore County].
    • New York
      • Rockland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Summit Park [Rockland County].
    • Utah
      • Summit County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Summit Park [Summit County].
    • Washington
      • Skagit County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Summit Park [Skagit County].
    • West Virginia
      • Harrison County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Summit Park [Harrison County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Summit Park ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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

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

More Orphans in  El Paso 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 El Paso County.

Academy HillsManitou Junction
AcademyManitou
AlbanoMcFerran
AlnwickThe Mesa
Alpine AcresMountain View
  
BeaumontNorth End
BierstadtNorth Pole
Bijou BasinNorthridge
Borst 
BrookwoodOverton
Butterworth Flat 
 Pikes Peak Park
Cable JunctionPikes Peak
CadetPortland Heights
CarltonPring
Cascade Canon 
Chapel HillsQuarry
Cheyenne Canon 
Colorado CityRamona
CragmorRockrimmon
Cresta VistaRustic Hills
CrewsRuxton Park
Culver 
CurtisSecurity - Widefield
 Skyline
DivideSkyway Park
DyerSkyway
 Sommers
EastonSouthwater
EdgertonSquirrel Creek
EdisonStratton Park
ElesmereSublime
 Suffolk
Franceville JunctionSummit
FrancevilleSunview
 Surber
Garden of the Gods 
GwillimsvilleTable Rock
 Templeton
HanoverTip Top
Hulbert 
HustedUte Pass Park
  
Jimmy CampVenetian Village
 Vista Grande
Kenmuir 
 Wayne
LevisyWeissport
Little ButtesWheatland
LytleWindy Point
 Woodland Park
Manitou Iron SpringsWoodmen

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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 Summit Park 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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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