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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Hermosa Beach came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of Hermosa Beach in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Hermosa Beach. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Hermosa Beach data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California & Nevada

Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2002
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for California (1956)

Published by Shell Oil Company

In addition:

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

We found Hermosa Beach in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for Hermosa Beach for more information.

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Hermosa Beach. See our Misc Page for Hermosa Beach for more information.

Railroad Mentions of Hermosa Beach:

Hermosa Beach was mentioned in the following schedule:

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)

Footnotes ...

<1>	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/