Do you know of Mission ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Mission. 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 Mission.
Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Mission, so we are uncertain whether Mission is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Mission would be found somewhere in Santa Clara County, California.
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.
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.
Communities Also Named Mission ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Mission.
There are five communities within California that are also named Mission.
Beyond California, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, 24 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In California ...
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Mission [Los Angeles County].
- San Francisco County
- San Luis Obispo County
- Santa Barbara County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Mission [Santa Barbara County].
- Yuba County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Mission [Yuba County].
- Los Angeles County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Mission.
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Mission [Sussex County].
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Harvey County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Mission [Harvey County].
- Johnson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Mission [Johnson County].
- Neosho County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Mission [Neosho County].
- Shawnee County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Mission [Shawnee County].
- Michigan
- Baraga County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mission [Baraga County].
- Chippewa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Mission [Chippewa County].
- Minnesota
- Crow Wing County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Mission [Crow Wing County].
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Pawnee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Mission [Pawnee County].
- North Carolina
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mission [Cherokee County].
- Stanly County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mission [Stanly County].
- Oregon
- Umatilla County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Mission [Umatilla County].
- South Dakota
- Todd County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Mission [Todd County].
- Texas
- Hidalgo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Mission [Hidalgo County].
- Washington
More Orphans in Santa Clara 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 Santa Clara County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Mission could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |