Do you know of San Antonio ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about San Antonio. 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 San Antonio.
Our sources for San Antonio (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 San Antonio other than they indicate that San Antonio would be found somewhere in San Bernardino County, California.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1891 and closed in 1905.
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 San Antonio ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name San Antonio.
There are four communities within California that are also named San Antonio.
Beyond California, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In California ...
- Alameda County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Antonio [Alameda County].
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Antonio [Los Angeles County].
- Marin County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Antonio [Marin County].
- Santa Clara County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Antonio [Santa Clara County].
- Alameda County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Conejos County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of San Antonio [Conejos County].
- Florida
- Pasco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of San Antonio [Pasco County].
- Kansas
- Ellis 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 Kansas community of San Antonio [Ellis County].
- Missouri
- Buchanan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of San Antonio [Buchanan County].
- Nevada
- Nye County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of San Antonio [Nye County].
- New Mexico
- Bernalillo County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Antonio [Bernalillo County].
- Rio Arriba County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Antonio [Rio Arriba County].
- San Miguel County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Antonio [San Miguel County].
- Socorro County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Antonio [Socorro County].
- Texas
- Bexar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of San Antonio [Bexar County].
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for San Antonio ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about San Antonio:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for San Antonio - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in San Bernardino 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 San Bernardino County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 San Antonio 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |