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To sort edit

Unincorporated communities:



Ghost towns:




Good as is edit

  • Winehaven - seems like more of an industrial site with some limited housing for workers;

Notable, but should be expanded edit

  • Canyon - needs references;
  • Giant (Nitro) - Durham classifies as locality; site of Giant Powder Company;redirect? probably notable; Giant and Nitro are two different locations.
  • Nichols - per Durham, a railroad siding named after major landholder in the area. Contra Costa County Historical Society has several photos of what the community of Nichols. See history of Bay Point [1] and [2].
  • Oleum - company town; post office 1910-1951; see [3];
  • Selby company town; [4]
  • Stege - see [5] [6];
  • Tormey - former company town, razed after plant closure; [7]
  • Valona - listed as town in Durham; see [8] and [9];


  • Tammukan - local tribe of Delta Yokuts-speaking natives; should be renamed and removed from Municipalities and communities of Contra Costa County;
renamed Tamcan and classified as tribe not community.

Questionable notability edit

  • Avon - railroad station, post office, company town (?); see Durham; see Gudde [11]; maybe should be called an industrial site. [12]; [13]
  • Redirected to Golden Eagle Refinery
  • Redirected to Rodeo, Ca.
  • Bayview-Montalvin - former CDP, later split between Bayview CDP and Montalvin Manor CDP; How to handle??
  • Minor cleanup; took out items no longer relevant to a former CDP;
  • Bixler - railway station on Santa Fe RR [15]; listed as locality in Durham; not in Gudde; called community here [16]; no other hits;
  • Blackhawk-Camino Tassajara former CDP; split between Blackhawk and Camino Tassajara; How to handle??
  • Minor cleanup; took out items no longer relevant to a former CDP;
  • Bridgehead - Durham call it a community but no other evidence; there is a Bridghead Rd in Oakley
  • Crolona Heights - not in Durham; district in Crockett [17]; maybe redirect to Crockett
  • Glen Frazer - train depot; site of Frazerville post office; Frazer was a local rancher; Durhams lists as locality;
  • Marsh Creek Springs - a private recreational park in 1930s [18]; listed as locality in Durham;
  • Rewritten to characterize as a recreational facility; not a community.
  • Muir - listed in Durham as locality; name associated with John Muir; may refer to rail overpass [19]; not a community;
  • Orwood - listed as locality in Durham; had a post office; called a farming tract here [20];listed as rail station here [21];
  • Ozol - Durham calls it a locality; most notable as site of Ozol Fuel Depot; perhaps redirect;
  • Rheem - community developed starting in 1944; incorporated into Moraga in 1974; maybe re-direct to Moraga [22]; seems better known as Rheem Valley. There a two Rheems in Contra Costa, one in Moraga (this one) and one even less notable near Richmond;
  • Tassajara - rural area;
  • Valle Vista - proposed subdivision of Canyon, named for nearby rail station [23] and [24]; redirect to Canyon?
  • Waldon - not listed in Durham; former CDP; how to handle?
  • Minor cleanup; took out items no longer relevant to a former CDP;


  • Ambrose - locality in Durham; no reference to this as a ghost town;
  • Redirected to Bay Point, Ca;
  • Empire - Durham lists a locality; no evidence it was a community; station on the Empire Railroad [25];
  • Schmidtville - briefly a post office; not much else [26];
  • Redirected to El Cerrito, Ca;

Not notable edit

  • Arbor - train depot [27]; not mentioned in Durham or Gudde;
  • Bancroft - railroad depot on Sacramento Northern RR on property owned by Bancroft family; [28]
  • Christie - Durham calls it a locality; associated with RR; no other hits;
  • Diamond - not in Durham; no other hits; possibly associated with Black Diamond Mines?
  • Four Corners - Durham calls it a locality; no other hits; Walnut Creek was once called "the Corners".
Redirected to Concord, Ca
  • Franklin Canyon - per Durham it is literally a canyon; named after early settler;
Updated to classify as canyon.
  • Gateley - Durhams calls it locality on railroad; no other obvious hits;
  • Hasford Heights - not in GNIS or Durham; city of Richmond calls it a neighborhood;
  • Herpoco - railroad depot/siding; predecessor to Hercules; redirect to Hercules
Redirected to Hercules, Ca.
  • Hookston - former railway siding; listed as locality in Durham; [29]; From 1891 to 1983, the station was primarily used as a loading dock for shipment of goods, including fruit and lumber.pg. II-2
  • Las Juntas - listed as locality in Durham; rail station on land associated with Rancho Las Juntas; mostly freight, no passengers [30]
  • Los Medanos - listed as locality in Durham; rail station on land associated with Rancho Los Medanos]]; redirect;
  • Luzon - rail station of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad; listed as locality in Durham;
Redirected to San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad
  • Maltby - rail station or siding on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; listed as locality in Durham;
  • McAvoy - listed as locality in Durham; nothing to indicate it was ever a community; possibly a rail depot or station;
  • Meinert - rail station [31]; listed in Durham as a locality;
  • Monsanto - Durham lists as locality on Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; Google map shows rail spur serving Monsanto chemical plant; no other obvious hits.
  • Neroly - listed in Durham as locality along Southern Pacific Railway; there is a Neroly Rd in Oakley; no other hits;
  • Newlove - listed in Durham as locality along Southern Pacific Railroad;
  • Rock City - Rock City is a geologic feature in Mount Diablo State Park;
  • Shore Acres - subdivision built after WW2 [32]; part of Bay Point CDP, redirect;
Redirected to Bay Point, Ca.
  • Sobrante - listed as locality in Durham; associated with Southern Pacific RR;
Redirected to Giant Powder Company
  • Sparkle - Durham lists as a locality; one possible reference as a train stop on Sacramento Northern RR [33];
  • Walnut Heights - not listed in Durham; district of Walnut Creek; redirect?
  • Werner - listed in Durham as a locality; might have been a train station at one time [34];


  • Acelanus - briefly a post office in Lafayette, Ca.;
Redirect to Lafayette, Ca.
  • Atchison - according to Durham, it was a post office named after Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway; a post office; not a ghost town;
Rewritten to classify as a post office and not a community
  • Hooper Durham calls it a locality; it is location of Hooper Ranch;
  • Horse Haven - no such settlement can be found; not in GNIS; Durham calls it a place; one source calls it the site of discovery of coal in the region.[35];
Redirect to Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve
  • Junction - post office; no indication there was ever a community;
  • Ohmer - was a railroad station [36]; Durham calls it a locality; no evidence it was a community; photo
Deleted but then immediately turned into redirect to Contra Costa County.


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