Do you know of Gates ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Gates, so we are uncertain whether Gates is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Gates would be found somewhere in Santa Barbara County, California.

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 Gates ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Gates.

There is one other community in California which is also named Gates.

Beyond California, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In California ...
- Solano County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Gates [Solano County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
  - Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Gates.
- Colorado
  - Weld County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Gates [Weld County].
- Georgia
  - Brooks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Gates [Brooks County].
  - Lumpkin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Gates [Lumpkin County].
- Kentucky
  - Rowan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Gates [Rowan County].
- Minnesota
  - Stearns County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Gates [Stearns County].
- Missouri
  - Greene County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Gates [Greene County].
- Nebraska
  - Custer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Gates [Custer County].
  - Sarpy County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Gates [Sarpy County].
- New York
  - Monroe County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Gates [Monroe County].
  - Saratoga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Gates [Saratoga County].
- North Carolina
  - Gates County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Gates [Gates County].
- Oregon
  - Linn County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Gates [Linn County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Gates [Fayette County].
- South Carolina
  - Pickens County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Gates [Pickens County].
- Tennessee
  - Lauderdale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Gates [Lauderdale County].
- Texas
  - Dallas County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Gates [Dallas County].
- West Virginia
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Gates [Monroe County].

More Orphans in Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Gates could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.