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Do you know of Alta ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Alta. 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 Alta.

Our sources for Alta (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 Alta other than they indicate that Alta would be found somewhere in Jefferson County, Montana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1896.

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.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Alta ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Alta.

There is one other community in Montana which is also named Alta.

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

  • Communities Located In Montana ...
    • Ravalli County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Alta [Ravalli County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Alta [Fayette County].
    • California
      • Placer County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Alta [Placer County].
      • San Diego County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Alta [San Diego County].
    • Colorado
      • San Miguel County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Alta [San Miguel County].
    • Illinois
      • Peoria County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Alta [Peoria County].
    • Indiana
      • Vermillion County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Alta [Vermillion County].
    • Iowa
      • Buena Vista County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Alta [Buena Vista County].
    • Kansas
      • Harvey County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Alta [Harvey County].
      • Jewell County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Alta [Jewell County].
      • Johnson County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Alta [Johnson County].
    • Kentucky
      • Ohio County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Alta [Ohio County].
    • North Dakota
      • Barnes County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Alta [Barnes County].
    • Ohio
      • Highland County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Alta [Highland County].
      • Richland County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Alta [Richland County].
    • Tennessee
      • Shelby County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Alta [Shelby County].
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Alta [Salt Lake County].
      • Wasatch County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Alta [Wasatch County].
    • West Virginia
      • Fayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Alta [Fayette County].
      • Greenbrier County
      • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Alta [Greenbrier County].
    • Wyoming
      • Teton County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Alta [Teton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Alta ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Alta - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Jefferson 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 Jefferson County.

BedfordLewis
Boulder ValleyLockhart
  
CataractMarie
Clancey 
Cold SpringPenwell
CrescentPipestone Springs
 Placer
Finn 
FletcherRadersburg
  
Gold DustSaddle Mountain
 Saint Louis
Halford'sSappington
Hartwell 
HodsonThistle
Hot Springs 
 Vose
Kirkendall 
 Weber
Lake Wilder 

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Alta 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.
<2>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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