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Welcome to Port Chicago ...So far, we found very little information about Port Chicago. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Port Chicago to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Port Chicago, please Contact Us. Port Chicago would have been located within present day Contra Costa County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Port Chicago, you might consider that their post office opened in 1931. A typical abbreviation for Port Chicago: Prt. Chicago While the community is gone, the present day location for Port Chicago is near sea level<3>. Time Zone: The area where Port Chicago was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time Communities near Port Chicago ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Port Chicago.
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 Port Chicago. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Port Chicago. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Port Chicago. 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 Port Chicago. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Port Chicago. See our Newspapers Page for Port Chicago. Adding Port Chicago to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Port Chicago 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 Port Chicago was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> We also found Port Chicago on a map titled Shell Oil Road Map for California (1956). For more details, see References and Mentions for Port Chicago. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Contra Costa County: www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/ The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/ Footnotes ...
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