Do you know of Alta Loma ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Alta Loma. 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 Alta Loma.<1>
We found mention of Alta Loma as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Galveston County, Texas.
It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1894 and closed in 1982.
Communities Also Named Alta Loma ...
We found one communities that share the name Alta Loma.
Within Texas, the name Alta Loma is unique.
Beyond Texas, there is another community also named Alta Loma in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Alta Loma [San Bernardino County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Alta Loma ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Alta Loma:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
The FIPS database contains an entry for Alta Loma.
Referenced FIPS Records ...
FIPS Code: 48/02152 (Place Name: Alta Loma)
County: Galveston (FIPS State/County: 48/167)
Class: U4
Identifies a populated place (ie- Alta Loma) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.
More Orphans in Galveston 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 Galveston County.
| Bayou Chantilly | Island |
| Bob Lyons | |
| Lafitte | |
| Clear Creek | |
| Parrville | |
| Gabion | Patton |
| Garfield | Pooleville |
| Highland Station | Shoal Point |
| Highland | |
| Hulen Park | West Glaveston |
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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |