Welcome to El Capitan ...So far, we found very little information about El Capitan. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added El Capitan to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with El Capitan, please Contact Us. El Capitan would have been located within present day San Diego County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of El Capitan, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886. The community was inundated by the El Capitan Reservoir. While the community is gone, the present day location for El Capitan is 750 feet [229 m] above sea level.<3>. Time Zone: The area where El Capitan was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time Communities near El Capitan ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near El Capitan.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around El Capitan. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for El Capitan. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of El Capitan. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around El Capitan. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around El Capitan. See our Newspapers Page for El Capitan. Adding El Capitan to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of El Capitan in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for El Capitan was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for El Capitan. Footnotes ...
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