Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Sun River 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 Sun River:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

Hixson Map of Montana (1950)
Published by Hixson Map Company

Shell Oil Map of Montana (1951)
Published by Shell Oil Company

Sun River 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 Sun River. See our Misc Page for Sun River for more information.