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Do you know of San Antonio ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about San Antonio. 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 San Antonio.<1>

We found mention of San Antonio as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Monterey 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 1858 and closed  in 1887.

Communities Also Named San Antonio ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name San Antonio.

There are five communities within California that are also named San Antonio.

Beyond California, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In California ...
    • Alameda County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Antonio [Alameda County].
    • Los Angeles County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Antonio [Los Angeles County].
    • Marin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Antonio [Marin County].
    • San Bernardino County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of San Antonio [San Bernardino County].
    • Santa Clara County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of San Antonio [Santa Clara County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Conejos County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of San Antonio [Conejos County].
    • Florida
      • Pasco County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of San Antonio [Pasco County].
    • Kansas
      • Ellis County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of San Antonio [Ellis County].
    • Missouri
      • Buchanan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of San Antonio [Buchanan County].
    • Nevada
      • Nye County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of San Antonio [Nye County].
    • New Mexico
      • Bernalillo County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Antonio [Bernalillo County].
      • Rio Arriba County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Antonio [Rio Arriba County].
      • San Miguel County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Antonio [San Miguel County].
      • Socorro County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of San Antonio [Socorro County].
    • Texas
      • Bexar County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of San Antonio [Bexar County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for San Antonio ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about San Antonio:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Monterey County ...

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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 Monterey County.

AgendaLake Majella
ApricotLaMajella
AsilomarLapis
  
BardinsMansfield
Bay View ParkMartins
Bradley StationMission Soledad
 Morocojo
Carmel Hills 
Carmel PointNew Republic
Carmel WoodsNorth Bay View Park
Cruessville 
Custom HouseParadise Springs
Cypress ParkPeach Tree
 Priest Valley
Del Monte Park 
 Retreat
East Monterey 
EatonSan Ardo Station
 San Barnaba
Fort Hunter LiggettSand Cut
 Sherwood
Grove HighlandsSlack Canyon
 Steinbeck
HamesSur
Hatton Fields 
 Veratina
Imusdale 
 Workfield

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>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 San Antonio 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.
<4>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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