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Do you know of Snowline ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Snowline. 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 Snowline.<1>

Our sources wasn't clear whether Snowline was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Snowline would be found somewhere in Beaverhead County, Montana.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Snowline ...

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

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

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad

The FIPS database contains an entry for Snowline.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 30/69325   (Place Name: Snowline)

County: Beaverhead     (FIPS State/County: 30/001)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Snowline) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Beaverhead 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 Beaverhead County.

AlamoElkhorn Springs
Amesville 
 Fox
Bowen 
 Reichle
Crab Tree 
 Watson
EarleWillis

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.









 

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