Do you know of Fort Colville ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Colville. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Fort Colville.<1> We found mention of Fort Colville as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Stevens County, Washington. It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2> From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1858 and closed in 1883. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Colville ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fort Colville: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3> List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Fort Colville was listed as Fort Colville Courthouse. More Orphans in Stevens County ...Can you help? As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Stevens County. Footnotes ...
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