Welcome to Forest Home ...

So far, we found very little information about Forest Home. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Forest Home to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Forest Home, please Contact Us.

Forest Home would have been located within present day Amador County<2>.

The location of Forest Home has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3>

While we don't have a date for the founding of Forest Home, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1862.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Forest Home is 580 feet [177 m] above sea level.<4>.

Time Zone: The area where Forest Home was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

If Forest Home still existed, it would have been in the (209) area code.

Communities Also Named Forest Home ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two California communities named Forest Home: This one is located in Amador County and the other is located in San Bernardino County.

Beyond California, there are 13 communities that are also named Forest Home - they are located in Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Forest Home.

Communities near Forest Home ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Forest Home.

• Folsom
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Folsom
  • Folsom is located in Sacramento County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 82,726 people
  • Folsom has also been known as:
  • Folsom City
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Folsom <5>
• Rancho Cordova
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancho Cordova
  • Rancho Cordova is located in Sacramento County
  • Estimated population in 2015: 71,017 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rancho Cordova <5>
• Ione
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ione
  • Ione is located in Amador County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,326 people
  • Former names for Ione:
  • Bedbug
  • Freeze Out
  • Hardscrabble
  • Ione City
  • Ione Valley
  • Jone City
  • Jone Valley
  • Rickeyville
  • Woosterville
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ione <5>
• Jackson
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson
  • Jackson is located in Amador County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,973 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jackson <5>
• Sutter Creek
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutter Creek
  • Sutter Creek is located in Amador County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,688 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sutter Creek <5>
• Plymouth
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth
  • Plymouth is located in Amador County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,043 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plymouth <5>
• Amador City
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amador City
  • Amador City is located in Amador County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 199 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Amador City <5>
• Carbondale ‑ Historic
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carbondale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbondale
  • Carbondale is located in Amador County
• Drytown
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drytown
  • Drytown is located in Amador County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Drytown <5>
• Rancho Murieta
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancho Murieta
  • Rancho Murieta is located in Sacramento County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rancho Murieta <5>

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

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

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

Adding Forest Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Forest Home 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 for Forest Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Forest Home post office opened in 1862.

We also found Forest Home in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Forest Home.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Amador County: www.co.amador.ca.us/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/