Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Spring Prairie 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 Spring Prairie:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

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

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

Spring Prairie 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 Spring Prairie. See our Misc Page for Spring Prairie for more information.