Miscellaneous References and Mentions
While our initial information about El Cerrito came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of El Cerrito 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 Cerrito. We hope that they will be useful to you.
Note: When we started collecting data about El Cerrito, we were inconsistent about keeping track of where that data came from. As a result, this list of references and mentions is probably incomplete.
El Cerrito is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>
From that list:
The El Cerrito post office opened in 1916 and had closed by 1935.
We found El Cerrito in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for El Cerrito for more information.
Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for El Cerrito. See our Misc Page for El Cerrito for more information.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for El Cerrito: www.el-cerrito.org/
The official website for Contra Costa County: www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/
The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |