Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Prairie Home 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 Prairie Home:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station

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)

Prairie Home 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 Prairie Home. See our Misc Page for Prairie Home for more information.