Do you know of Mad River ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mad River. 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 Mad River.<1>
We found mention of Mad River as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Trinity 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 1872.
Communities Also Named Mad River ...
We found one communities that share the name Mad River.
Within California, the name Mad River is unique.
Beyond California, there is another community also named Mad River in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Ohio
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Mad River [Clark County].
- Ohio
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mad River ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Mad River:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
The FIPS database contains an entry for Mad River.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 06/45092 (Place Name: Mad River)
County: Trinity (FIPS State/County: 06/105)
Class: U8
Identifies a populated place (in this case, Mad River) 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 Trinity 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 Trinity County.
| Abrams | Francis |
| Coeur | Hetten |
| Coleridge | Hoaglin |
| Covington Mill | |
| Lowden's Ranch | |
| Deer Lick Springs | |
| Messerville |
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/ |