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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks

Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for Illinois (1956)

Published by Shell Oil Company

In addition:

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/