Do you know of South Bay ???

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

We found mention of South Bay as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Humboldt County, California.

Communities Also Named South Bay ...

We found nine communities that share the name South Bay.

Within California, the name South Bay is unique.

Beyond California, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, six are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Palm Beach County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of South Bay [Palm Beach County].
- New Brunswick
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of South Bay.
- New York
  - Madison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of South Bay [Madison County].
  - Onondaga County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of South Bay [Onondaga County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of South Bay [Washington County].
- Ohio
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of South Bay [Knox County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of South Bay.
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of South Bay.
- Washington
  - Thurston County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of South Bay [Thurston County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Bay ...

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

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

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for South Bay - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

More Orphans in Humboldt County ...

Can you help?

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 Humboldt County.

Footnotes ...

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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.

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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 South Bay 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.