Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Fort Defiance came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Fort Defiance in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fort Defiance. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Fort Defiance 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 Fort Defiance. See our Misc Page for Fort Defiance for more information.