Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about El Capitan came from various goverment sources (GNIS), we also found mention of El Capitan in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about El Capitan. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our El Capitan data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for El Capitan:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

The GNIS database contains an entry for El Capitan. See our Misc Page for El Capitan for more information.