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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

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

 

Rand McNally Map of Texas (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Rand McNally Map of Texas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Desert 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 Desert. See our Misc Page for Desert 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/