Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Arizona & New Mexico
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 1995
(Available from Amazon.com)

Afton 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 Afton. See our Misc Page for Afton for more information.

Railroad Mentions of Afton:

Afton was mentioned in the following schedules:

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (August 1903)

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)