RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of California >> Stanislaus County >> Valley HomeIndex...

Welcome to Valley Home ...

Valley Home is located in Stanislaus County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Valley Home, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1918.

Valley Home is 150 feet [46 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Valley Home lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Valley Home: 209 & 350<3>

Communities Also Named Valley Home ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Valley Home - it's located in Tennessee.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Valley Home.

Communities near Valley Home ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Valley Home.

  • Modesto
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Modesto
    • Modesto is located in Stanislaus County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 215,666 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Modesto <4>
  • Manteca
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manteca
    • Manteca is located in San Joaquin County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 84,445 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manteca <4>
  • Ceres
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ceres
    • Ceres is located in Stanislaus County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 48,603 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ceres <4>
  • Lathrop
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lathrop
    • Lathrop is located in San Joaquin County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 26,373 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lathrop <4>
  • Riverbank
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Oakdale
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakdale
    • Oakdale is located in Stanislaus County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 23,228 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oakdale <4>
  • Ripon
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripon
    • Ripon is located in San Joaquin County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 16,774 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ripon <4>
  • Waterford
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Hughson
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Escalon
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escalon
    • Escalon is located in San Joaquin County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,580 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Escalon <4>

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Valley Home. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Valley Home.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Valley Home. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Valley Home.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Valley Home. See our Newspapers Page for Valley Home.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Valley Home ...

Looking for more information about Valley Home? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Valley Home, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Valley Home.

Adding Valley Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Valley Home in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Valley Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Valley Home post office opened in 1918.

We also found Valley Home mentioned on a train schedule titled Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Valley Home.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Stanislaus, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Valley Home - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 209 code has been Overlayed with the 350 area code. New phone numbers in the Valley Home area will be assigned with one of these codes: 209 or 350. As a result, placing a call in the Valley Home area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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