Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Ballarat came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Ballarat in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ballarat. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Ballarat data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

California Place Names
Written by: Gudde, Erwin
Published by University of California Press, 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

Ballarat is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Ballarat. See our Misc Page for Ballarat for more information.