Do you know of Arroyo ???

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

Our sources for Arroyo (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 Arroyo other than they indicate that Arroyo would be found somewhere in Cameron County, Texas.

Communities Also Named Arroyo ...

We found two communities that share the name Arroyo.

Within Texas, the name Arroyo is unique.

Beyond Texas, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Pennsylvania
  - Elk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Arroyo [Elk County].
- West Virginia
  - Hancock County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Arroyo [Hancock County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Arroyo ...

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

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

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Texas
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Arroyo.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 48/04168 (Place Name: Arroyo)

County: Cameron (FIPS State/County: 48/061)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Arroyo) 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 Cameron 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 Cameron County.

Acacia Lake	Juarez - Las Palmas

Bahia Mar	Kayare
Bayside	Kipfer

Colaboz	Palm Village
	Point Isabel
El Jardin	Point Ysabel
Evan
	Ranchiti
Fresnal
	Tiocano
Isabel
	Yescas

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.

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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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Arroyo 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.