Do you know of Dark Canyon ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dark Canyon. 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 Dark Canyon.<1> We found mention of Dark Canyon as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Humboldt County, California. It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2> From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1882. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dark Canyon ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dark Canyon: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3> SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California & Nevada
More Orphans in Humboldt 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 Humboldt County. Footnotes ...
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