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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

 

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Texas
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)

Rand McNally Map of New Mexico (1920)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

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

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

Footnotes ...

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

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