Welcome to San Rafael ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of San Rafael, you might consider that their post office opened in 1907.

Time Zone: The area where San Rafael was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

If San Rafael still existed, it would have been in the (435) area code.

Communities Also Named San Rafael ...

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

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

Adding San Rafael 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 San Rafael was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the San Rafael post office opened in 1907.

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Emery County: www.co.emery.ut.us/

The official website for State of Utah: https://www.utah.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 San Rafael, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Utah's counties, including Emery, 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/