Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about San Luis Obispo came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of San Luis Obispo 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 San Luis Obispo. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for San Luis Obispo:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, a Railroad Station, a Express Office

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

San Luis Obispo was listed as San Luis Obispo Courthouse.

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California & Nevada
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2002
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

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

We found San Luis Obispo in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for San Luis Obispo for more information.

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

Railroad Mentions of San Luis Obispo:

San Luis Obispo was mentioned in the following schedules:

Greyhound Bus Time Table (November 1931)

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (August 1903)

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (March 1908)

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)

Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (January 1950)

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for San Luis Obispo: www.slocity.org/

The official website for San Luis Obispo County: www.co.slo.ca.us/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/