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Welcome to Holy City ...

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

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

Holy City would have been located within present day Santa Clara County<2>.


We aren't confident of the location of Holy City, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3>


While we don't have a date for the founding of Holy City, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1927.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Holy City is 1,250 feet [381 m] above sea level.<4>.

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

The location where Holy City once stood is in the (408) and (669)<5> area codes.

Communities Also Named Holy City ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Holy City - it's located in Oklahoma.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Holy City.

Communities near Holy City ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Holy City.

  • San Jose
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Jose
    • San Jose is located in Santa Clara County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,013,616 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for San Jose <6>
  • Sunnyvale
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Santa Clara
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Mountain View
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Milpitas
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Santa Cruz
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Cupertino
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Morgan Hill
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Campbell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Saratoga
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)

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

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

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

Adding Holy City to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Holy City 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 Holy City was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>

From that list, the Holy City post office opened in 1927.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Holy City.

The official website for Santa Clara County: www.sccgov.org/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Holy City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Santa Clara, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Holy City - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5>Area code (669) is an overlay for area code (408).
<6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<7>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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




 

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