Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

Alton is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

The GNIS database contains an entry for Alton. See our Misc Page for Alton for more information.