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Welcome to South Fork ...

So far, we found very little information about South Fork. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added South Fork to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of South Fork - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with South Fork, please Contact Us.


While we don't have the exact location of South Fork , we believe that it would have been located within present day Elko County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of South Fork, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1874.

A typical abbreviation for South Fork: S. Fork

Time Zone: The area where South Fork was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

The location where South Fork once stood is in the (775) area code.

Communities Also Named South Fork ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 22 communities that are also named South Fork - they are located in Arkansas, California (5), Colorado, Florida, Kentucky (4), Missouri, Montana (2), North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Saskatchewan, Tennessee (2) and Texas (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for South Fork.

Adding South Fork to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned South Fork was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the South Fork post office opened in 1874.

For more details, see References and Mentions for South Fork.

The official website for Elko County: www.elkocountynv.net/

The official website for State of Nevada: nv.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about South Fork, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Nevada's counties, including Elko, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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