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

We found mention of Los Alisos as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Santa Barbara 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 1870 and closed  in 1871.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Los Alisos ...

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

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

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

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)

More Orphans in  Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara County.

Battles 
 Oak Knolls
CachumaOrby
Calkin 
CareagaPace Park
 Pesco
DividePoint Arguello
  
El Encanto HeightsRancho San Fernando Rey
Evergreen Acres 
 San Roque
GatesSanta Maria South
GraciosaStowell
 Stuart
HarrisSuey
Hopevale 
 Vandenberg Air Force Base
Lake ViewVandenberg
Lompoc NorthVictoria Court
Lompoc Northwest 
 Wave
MagnoliaWest Santa Barbara
MilpasWhite Hills Junction
MonticetoWhite Hills
Mora VillaWigmore

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/