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Welcome to Lexington ...

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

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

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


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


While we don't have a date for the founding of Lexington, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1861. The community was inundated by the Lexington Reservoir.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Lexington is 640 feet [195 m] above sea level.<4>.

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

Going back to its beginning, Lexington was originally named Jones Mill. For more information about the names of Lexington, see The Names of Lexington on our Genealogy Page.

Communities Also Named Lexington ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 42 communities that are also named Lexington - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas (2), Georgia, Illinois (2), Indiana (2), Iowa (2), Kansas (4), Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota (2), Mississippi, Missouri (2), Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio (4), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia (3) and Washington.

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

Communities near Lexington ...

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

  • San Jose
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • 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 <5>
  • Sunnyvale
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Santa Clara
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Mountain View
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Milpitas
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Palo Alto
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Santa Cruz
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Cupertino
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Morgan Hill
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Campbell
    (6 miles [9.7 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 Lexington. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Lexington.

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

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

Adding Lexington to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Lexington in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Lexington was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Lexington post office opened in 1861.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Lexington.

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 Lexington, 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 Lexington - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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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