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Do you know of Bronco ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bronco. 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 Bronco.<1>

Our source wasn't clear whether Bronco was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Bronco would be found somewhere in Stanislaus County, California.

Communities Also Named Bronco ...

We found five communities that share the name Bronco.

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

Beyond California, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In California ...
    • Nevada County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bronco [Nevada County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Walker County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bronco [Walker County].
    • Nevada
      • Washoe County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Bronco [Washoe County].
    • New Mexico
      • Lea County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Bronco [Lea County].
    • Texas
      • Yoakum County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bronco [Yoakum County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bronco ...

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

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)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Bronco.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 06/08464   (Place Name: Bronco)

County: Stanislaus     (FIPS State/County: 06/099)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Bronco) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Stanislaus 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 Stanislaus County.

Burnetts 
ByersvilleNorth Modesto
 North Turlock
College GardensNortheast Modesto
Cottage Gardens 
 Paradise
East ModestoPrima Vista
El ViejoPuerto
Emerald 
 River Road
Fairview 
 South Modesto
GraysonvilleSouth Turlock
  
HallyTartrow
Horr's RanchTwenty-Six Mile House
Hudson 
 Vernon
La Loma 
 Warnersville
MooreWestside

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.









 

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