Do you know of San Juan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about San Juan. 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 Juan.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of San Juan, so we are uncertain whether San Juan is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. We can't give a location other than its somewhere in Alaska
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 Juan ...
We found fourteen communities that share the name San Juan.
Within Alaska, the name San Juan is unique.
Beyond Alaska, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- 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 San Juan [Los Angeles County].
- Sacramento County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Juan [Sacramento County].
- San Benito 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 California community of San Juan [San Benito County].
- Colorado
- Hinsdale 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 Colorado community of San Juan [Hinsdale County].
- Las Animas County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of San Juan [Las Animas County].
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Juan [Grant County].
- Rio Arriba County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Juan [Rio Arriba County].
- San Miguel County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Juan [San Miguel County].
- Valencia County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Juan [Valencia County].
- Texas
- California
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 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 San Juan 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 . 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. |