Do you know of Avenal ???

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

Our sources for Avenal (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 Avenal other than they indicate that Avenal would be found somewhere in San Luis Obispo County, California.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1887 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 Avenal ...

We found one communities that share the name Avenal.

There is one other community in California which is also named Avenal.

Beyond California.

• Communities Located In California ...
  • Kings County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Avenal [Kings County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Avenal ...

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

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

The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (Second Edition)
Written by: Gannett, Henry
Published by the Department of the Interior, the United States Geological Survey - 1905
(Document found on Google Books)

Shell Oil Road Map for California (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

More Orphans in  San Luis Obispo 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 San Luis Obispo County.