Do you know of Blue Canon ???

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

Our sources for Blue Canon (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 Blue Canon other than they indicate that Blue Canon would be found somewhere in Placer County, California.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1936 and closed  in 1964.

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.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Canon ...

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

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

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (August 1903)
Published by Southern Pacific Railroad

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)
Published by Southern Pacific Railroad

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (March 1908)
Published by Southern Pacific Railroad

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California & Nevada
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2002
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Placer 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 Placer County.