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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

Porterfield 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 Porterfield. See our Misc Page for Porterfield 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/