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Do you know of Doheny Park ???

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

We found mention of Doheny Park as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Orange 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.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1926 and closed  in 1947.

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 Doheny Park ...

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Doheny Park.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 06/19444   (Place Name: Doheny Park)

County: Orange     (FIPS State/County: 06/059)

Class: U6

Identifies a populated place (ie- Doheny Park) that is wholly or substantially located outside the boundaries of any incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) that has an authoritative common name recognized by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Orange 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 Orange County.

Arch Beach HeightsMesa Center
Arch BeachMesto
 Monarch Bay
Ballroad 
Beach CenterNewport Harbor
BristolNewport Island
Brookhurst CenterNewport
 Niguel Terrace
Capistrano HighlandsNorth Seal Beach
Capistrano 
CodornizOrangehurst
Colonia Independencia 
Colonial JuarezPlaya
CommonwealthPleasant Ranchos
Cypress South 
 Red Hill
Dairy CityRichfield
DairylandRiverside
DiamondRossmoor Highlands
  
East NewportSaint James
East TustinSan Juan Plaza
 Spurgeon
FairviewSun Garden Village
ForsterSunkist
  
Harbor IslandTrabuco Oaks
Harperville 
HolidayUniversity Park
Huntington 
 Valencia
KingVenta
 Vignolo
LagunitaVista Del Mar
Linbrook 
LoboWest Garden Grove
Logona BeachWest Orange
 West Santa Ana
Mariner 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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