Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about El Centro came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of El Centro in various books, maps 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 Centro. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

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)

Shell Oil Road Map for California (1956)

Published by Shell Oil Company

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

We found El Centro in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for El Centro for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for El Centro. See our Misc Page for El Centro for more information.

Railroad Mentions of El Centro:

El Centro was mentioned in the following schedules:

Greyhound Bus Time Table (November 1931)

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)