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Welcome to Pleyto ...

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

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

Pleyto would have been located within present day Monterey County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pleyto, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1884. The community was inundated by the San Antonio Reservoir.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Pleyto is 780 feet [238 m] above sea level.<3>.

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

The Area Codes where Pleyto was located: 805 & 820<4>

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

Websites for Pleyto ...

Junior League:   www.jlmontereycounty.org/

Communities near Pleyto ...

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

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 Pleyto. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Pleyto.

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

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

Adding Pleyto to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Pleyto in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

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

From that list, the Pleyto post office opened in 1884.

We also found Pleyto in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pleyto.

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 Pleyto, 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 Monterey, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Pleyto - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 805 code has been Overlayed with the 820 area code. New phone numbers in the Pleyto area will be assigned with one of these codes: 805 or 820. As a result, placing a call in the Pleyto area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<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/