Do you know of San Jose ???

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

We found mention of San Jose as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Valencia County, New Mexico.

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.

Communities Also Named San Jose ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name San Jose.

There are six communities within New Mexico that are also named San Jose.

Beyond New Mexico, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In New Mexico ...
- Bernalillo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Jose [Bernalillo County].
- Eddy County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Jose [Eddy County].
- Rio Arriba County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Jose [Rio Arriba County].
- San Miguel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Jose [San Miguel County].
- Sierra County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Jose [Sierra County].
- Socorro County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Jose [Socorro County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
  - Cochise 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 Arizona community of San Jose [Cochise County].
  - Graham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of San Jose [Graham County].
- California
  - Los Angeles County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Jose [Los Angeles County].
  - Marin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Jose [Marin County].
  - San Diego County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Jose [San Diego County].
  - Santa Clara County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Jose [Santa Clara County].
- Florida
  - Duval County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of San Jose [Duval County].
- Illinois
  - Mason County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of San Jose [Mason County].
- Texas
  - Bexar County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of San Jose [Bexar County].
  - Duval County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of San Jose [Duval County].
  - El Paso County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of San Jose [El Paso County].
  - Starr County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of San Jose [Starr County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for San Jose ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Valencia 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 Valencia 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Jose 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.