Do you know of Camp Taylor ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Camp Taylor. 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 Camp Taylor.

Our sources for Camp Taylor (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Camp Taylor other than they indicate that Camp Taylor would be found somewhere in Marin County, California.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1894 and closed  in 1912.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Camp Taylor ...

We found one communities that share the name Camp Taylor.

Within California, the name Camp Taylor is unique.

Beyond California, there is another community also named Camp Taylor in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Jefferson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Camp Taylor [Jefferson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Camp Taylor ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Camp Taylor:

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Camp Taylor - Services available: had a Railroad Station, Express Office, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in  Marin 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 Marin County.