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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Orchard came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Orchard in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Orchard. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Orchard data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

North American Railroad Atlas - Mountain Plains
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2000
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for Idaho (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Orchard. See our Misc Page for Orchard for more information.


Railroad Mentions of Orchard:

Orchard was mentioned in the following schedules:

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939)

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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