What we know
The Rock Island's depot was named Mayfield; the post office refused the name; PO Peyton from Feb. 14, 1889.
Today: Census-designated place
Where it was
USGS GNIS Populated Place 204796
The U.S. Geological Survey's official point for this place name.
Sources
Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.