Do you know of Mountain House ???

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

Our sources for Mountain House (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 Mountain House other than they indicate that Mountain House would be found somewhere in Sierra County, California.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1874 and closed  in 1911.

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 Mountain House ...

We found three communities that share the name Mountain House.

There is one other community in California which is also named Mountain House.

Beyond California, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Located In California ...
  • San Joaquin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Mountain House [San Joaquin County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Nevada
    • Douglas County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Mountain House [Douglas County].
  • New York
    • Orange County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Mountain House [Orange County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mountain House ...

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

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 Mountain House - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California & Nevada
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2002
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Sierra County ...

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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 Sierra County.