Talk:List of post offices in Colorado

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Coordination with other list of post offices

I think there should be some better coordination, or a merger of sorts, between this list and the List of United States post offices in Colorado, which is a section in long-standing List of United States Post Offices. That is a list of _notable_ ones, i.e. having or deserving to have a Wikipedia article, often/usually by dint of being significant in ways recognized by listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

This list is what? A list of zip codes? It is a bit more than that, it could be a list of settlements/towns that have had a post office. But if this is a list of post offices, then it should link to articles about individual ones where they exist, and a "Name" column should give actual name of a post office, such as "U.S. Post Office and Federal Building (Denver, Colorado)" (later the Byron White United States Courthouse), when an actual name is known. And then, yes, a settlement/community/town column. Comments? --Doncram (talk) 04:26, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How does this relate to:

I'm not sure all of these, and this list, need to exist separately. I think some states have "List of settlements in State" which could include current and past ones, and I presume could include all current and former post office locations, and all ghost towns. But List of settlements in the United States#Colorado does not have any list at all, it just links to Colorado article and the first two above. --Doncram (talk) 04:31, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Doncram: The List of populated places in Colorado now includes all Colorado post offices listed here, without the ZIP Codes and dates of operation, but with the location and elevation where available. The List of settlements in the United States#Colorado now includes all eight Colorado settlement lists, the most extensive of any U.S. state. Thanks, Buaidh talk e-mail 21:35, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Length of this list

@Abductive: Like most lists, this list is primarily for reference rather than casual reading. The State of Colorado was settled in the chaos of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and the feverish mining activity that followed. Many of the mountain mining settlements lasted only a few months or years. Many agricultural settlements were similarly short lived. The best record of these settlements is the opening and closing of their post offices. While short lived settlements may seem inconsequential, their inhabitants lived, worked and died there. This list helps document those lives.

This list can be broken into two or more sublists. Yours aye, Buaidh talk e-mail 18:47, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I didn't apply the "too long" tag. All I did was sic Citation bot on the Category:Articles that may be too long from October 2024. Abductive (reasoning) 21:22, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]