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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

 

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)

Rand McNally Map of New Mexico (1925)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

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


Railroad Mentions of Colfax:

Colfax was mentioned in the following schedules:

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)

Trailways Santa Fe Bus Time Table (July 1945)

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/