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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

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

Note: When we started collecting data about Santa Margarita, we were inconsistent about keeping track of where that data came from. As a result, this list of references and mentions is probably incomplete.

 

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Santa Margarita:
Services available in 1895: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

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

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

Santa Margarita 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 Santa Margarita. See our Misc Page for Santa Margarita for more information.


Railroad Mentions of Santa Margarita:

Santa Margarita was mentioned in the following schedules:

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (March 1908)

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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