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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Spofford 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 Spofford:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station, an Express Office

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

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

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Spofford. See our Misc Page for Spofford for more information.


Railroad Mentions of Spofford:

Spofford was mentioned in the following schedule:

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)

Footnotes ...

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

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