Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Oildale came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Oildale in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Oildale. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Oildale data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Shell Oil Road Map for California (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

Oildale is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Oildale. See our Misc Page for Oildale for more information.