RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of California >> Tulare County >> Giant ForestSitemap...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
California


The Commemorative Quarter for California







Do you know of Giant Forest ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Giant Forest. 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 Giant Forest.<1>

We found mention of Giant Forest as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Tulare County, California.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1915 and closed  in 1918.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Giant Forest ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)
Published by Southern Pacific Railroad

The FIPS database contains an entry for Giant Forest.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 06/29448   (Place Name: Giant Forest (Giant Forest Lodge))

County: Tulare     (FIPS State/County: 06/107)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Giant Forest) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Tulare County ...

Can you help?

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 Tulare County.

Alila 
Alpine VillageKeeneysburgh
ArmonaKlink
  
BellevilleLemon
BurtonLime Kiln
 Linnell
CairnsLodge Pole
Camp Badger 
Camp KaweahMayville
Camp Wishon 
Citro JunctionNeil
CramerNew London
Cross Creek 
CrowleyOval
  
DauntPortersville
DimibaPorterville Junction
Doyle ColonyPorterville Northwest
DoylePorterville West
  
East RedbanksQuaking Aspen
East Tulare 
EsperanzaStrathmore Junction
Euclid 
 Tagus Ranch
FrazierTerminus
 Tulare East
GainsTulare Northwest
Goshen JunctionTule
Grangeville 
 Wambat
HendersonWaukeno
 Winco
Johnson TractWoodland

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

Copyright 2024
All Rights Reserved

Thank you for visiting our website.

In closing, please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write: Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified/updated: 19 Sep 2024