Do you know of Ocean View ???

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

We found mention of Ocean View as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Sonoma County, California.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1870 and closed in 1874.

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 Ocean View ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Ocean View.

There are three communities within California that are also named Ocean View.

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

Communities Located In California ...
- Los Angeles 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 Ocean View [Los Angeles County].
- Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Ocean View [Orange County].
- San Francisco 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 Ocean View [San Francisco County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Delaware
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Ocean View [Sussex County].
- Florida
  - Miami-Dade 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 Florida community of Ocean View [Miami-Dade County].
- Hawaii
  - 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 Hawaii community of Ocean View.
- Massachusetts
  - Essex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Ocean View [Essex County].
- New Jersey
  - Cape May County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Ocean View [Cape May County].
- North Carolina
  - New Hanover County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Ocean View [New Hanover County].
- Oregon
  - Benton 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 Oregon community of Ocean View [Benton County].
  - Tillamook County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Ocean View [Tillamook County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Ocean View.
- Rhode Island
  - Washington 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 Rhode Island community of Ocean View [Washington County].
- Virginia
  - Norfolk City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Ocean View [Norfolk City].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ocean View ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for Ocean View.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 06/53364 (Place Name: Ocean View (Wrights Beach))

County: Sonoma (FIPS State/County: 06/097)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Ocean View) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Sonoma 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 Sonoma 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 Ocean View 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/