Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

Rand McNally Map of New Hampshire (1912)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Bear Island 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 Bear Island. See our Misc Page for Bear Island for more information.