Do you know of Santa Clara ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Santa Clara. 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 Santa Clara.

Our sources for Santa Clara (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Santa Clara other than they indicate that Santa Clara would be found somewhere in Brown County, South Dakota.

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.

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.

Communities Also Named Santa Clara ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Santa Clara.

Within South Dakota, the name Santa Clara is unique.

Beyond South Dakota, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Santa Clara County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Santa Clara [Santa Clara County].
- Colorado
  - Huerfano County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Santa Clara [Huerfano County].
- Florida
  - Gadsden County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Santa Clara [Gadsden County].
- Nevada
  - Pershing County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Santa Clara [Pershing County].
- New Mexico
  - Grant County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Santa Clara [Grant County].
  - Rio Arriba County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Santa Clara [Rio Arriba County].
  - Santa Fe County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Santa Clara [Santa Fe County].
- New York
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Santa Clara [Franklin County].
- Oregon
  - Lane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Santa Clara [Lane County].
- Texas
  - Guadalupe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Santa Clara [Guadalupe County].
- Utah
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Santa Clara [Washington County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Santa Clara ...

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

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

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

More Orphans in Brown 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 Brown County.

Chedi	Gem
Clairmont
	Moody
Detroit	Murray
Dodge
	Rondell

Footnotes ...

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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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Santa Clara 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.