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Do you know of Tunitas ???

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

Our sources wasn't clear whether Tunitas was a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name.<2> While we don't have its location, we believe that Tunitas would be found somewhere in San Mateo County, California.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tunitas ...

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

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)

Nevada County Narrow Gauge Employees' Time Table (February 1938)
Published by the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad

The FIPS database contains an entry for Tunitas.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 06/80728   (Place Name: Tunitas)

County: San Mateo     (FIPS State/County: 06/081)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Tunitas) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  San Mateo 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 San Mateo County.

Alpine Hills 
 Nairobi
Barzilla 
BaywoodOak Grove
Broadway 
Brookside ParkPortola Terrace
Burlingame HillsPrinceton-by-the-Sea
 Purdy's
CemetaryPurissama
Chestnut 
Colma StationRockaway
 Romac
East San Bruno 
 Saint Francis Heights
FaralloneSaint Matthew
Franciscan ParkSchoolhouse Station
 Serramonte
Garden VillageSouthwood
Gardena VillageStauffer
 Sterling Park
HarrisonStonegate
Howest 
 Terra Loma
Marsh Manor 
MillsdaleVista Grande

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.









 

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