Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Irving Park came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Irving Park 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 Irving Park. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Irving Park:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station, an Express Office

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)

Map from 1870 (unknown title/publisher)

Irving Park 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 Irving Park. See our Misc Page for Irving Park for more information.