Do you know of East San Pedro ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about East San Pedro. 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 East San Pedro.<1>
Our sources wasn't clear whether East San Pedro 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 East San Pedro would be found somewhere in Los Angeles County, California.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for East San Pedro ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about East San Pedro:
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)
Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924)
Published by Union Pacific Railroad
The FIPS database contains an entry for East San Pedro.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 06/21110 (Place Name: East San Pedro)
County: Los Angeles (FIPS State/County: 06/037)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- East San Pedro) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
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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 Los Angeles County.
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. |