RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Texas >> Hidalgo County >> Mercedes >> MentionsIndex...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
Texas


The Commemorative Quarter for Texas







Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Mercedes 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)

Road Map for Texas (from Shell Oil, 1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

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

We found Mercedes in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Mercedes for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Mercedes. See our Misc Page for Mercedes 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/