Do you know of Fruitvale ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fruitvale. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Fruitvale.

Our sources for Fruitvale (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Fruitvale other than they indicate that Fruitvale would be found somewhere in Fresno County, California.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1883 and closed  in 1892.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Fruitvale ...

We found ten communities that share the name Fruitvale.

There are two communities within California that are also named Fruitvale.

Beyond California, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

• Communities Located In California ...
  • Alameda County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fruitvale [Alameda County].
  • Kern County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fruitvale [Kern County].

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Fruitvale.
  • Colorado
    • Mesa County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Fruitvale [Mesa County].
  • Idaho
    • Adams County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Fruitvale [Adams County].
  • New Mexico
    • Bernalillo County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Fruitvale [Bernalillo County].
  • Oregon
    • Lincoln County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Fruitvale [Lincoln County].
  • Tennessee
    • Crockett County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Fruitvale [Crockett County].
  • Texas
    • Van Zandt County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fruitvale [Van Zandt County].
  • Washington
    • Yakima County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Fruitvale [Yakima County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fruitvale ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fruitvale:

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fruitvale - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Fresno County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Fresno County.