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Welcome to El Portal ...

El Portal is located in Mariposa County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of El Portal, you might consider that their post office opened in 1907.

El Portal is 1,930 feet [588 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: El Portal lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for El Portal: 209 & 350<3>

The ZIP code for El Portal: 95318<4>

Communities Also Named El Portal ...

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for El Portal.

Communities near El Portal ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near El Portal.

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 Portal. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for El Portal.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of El Portal. 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 Portal.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around El Portal. See our Newspapers Page for El Portal.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for El Portal ...

Looking for more information about El Portal? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

In addition to the Tourism page for El Portal, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for El Portal.

Adding El Portal to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of El Portal in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for El Portal was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the El Portal post office opened in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for El Portal.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Mariposa, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around El Portal - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 209 code has been Overlayed with the 350 area code. New phone numbers in the El Portal area will be assigned with one of these codes: 209 or 350. As a result, placing a call in the El Portal area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>ZIP Codes have been created by the United States Postal Service (USPS) as a way of grouping addresses to make delivery more efficient. The boundaries of the ZIP Code can be changed, re-assigned, eliminated or overlapped with other ZIP Codes. So keep in mind that any given ZIP Code is only 'loosely' associated with a community (such as El Portal). When looking for a ZIP Code, whether El Portal or elsewhere, it's always best to check the website of the United States Postal Service (USPS).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/