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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

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

 

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

We found Hamel in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Hamel for more information.

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


Railroad Mentions of Hamel:

Hamel was mentioned in the following schedules:

Greyhound Bus Time Table (November 1931)

Trailways Santa Fe Bus Time Table (July 1945)

Footnotes ...

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

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