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Welcome to San Luis ...

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

We've added San Luis to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with San Luis, please Contact Us.

San Luis was located on the Gulf Coast.

San Luis would have been located within present day Brazoria County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of San Luis, you might consider that their post office opened in 1840.

Time Zone: The area where San Luis was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named San Luis ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named San Luis - they are located in Arizona (2), California, Colorado and New Mexico.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for San Luis.

Communities near San Luis ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near San Luis.

  • Lake Jackson
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Angleton
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Freeport
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Clute
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Clute is located in Brazoria County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clute
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,724 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clute <3>
  • Richwood
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Danbury
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Oyster Creek
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Oyster Creek is located in Brazoria County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oyster Creek
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,212 people
  • Jamaica Beach
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Tiki Island
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Tiki Island is located in Galveston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiki Island
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,072 people
    • Tiki Island has also been known as:
    • Village of Tiki Island
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tiki Island <3>
  • Surfside Beach
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)

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 San Luis. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for San Luis.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of San Luis. 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 San Luis.

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

Adding San Luis to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of San Luis in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for San Luis was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the San Luis post office opened in 1840. The San Luis post office closed in 1855.

For more details, see References and Mentions for San Luis.

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 San Luis, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Brazoria, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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