San Antonio Valley | |
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  San Antonio Valley  San Antonio Valley | |
| Coordinates:37°23′30″N121°29′25″W / 37.391709°N 121.490335°W /37.391709; -121.490335 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Santa Clara |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP code | 94550 |
| Area code | 408 |
| GNIS feature ID | 232374[1] |
The community ofSan Antonio Valley, also calledSan Antonio orSan Antone, is located along theDiablo Range in easternSanta Clara County, California. The locale is bordered byAlameda County to the north andStanislaus County to the east. The sparsely populated area is located at the junction of San Antonio Valley Road, Mines Road, and Del Puerto Canyon Road. San Antonio Valley Road and Del Puerto Canyon Road are legislatively part ofCalifornia State Route 130 but have not been adopted byCaltrans.
The area includes theSan Antonio Valley Ecological Reserve, a 3,282-acre nature preserve created by aNature Conservancy purchase of land from local rancher, Keith Hurner, and known for its herd oftule elk.[2][3]
The San Antonio Valley appears to have been a transitional area between the nativeOhlone cultures from the San Francisco-Monterey region and theYokuts of theSan Joaquin River watershed. The Ohlone are speculated to have arrived in the Bay Area around 500 A.D. when they displaced Hokan speaking populations already in the region.[2]
On April 5, 1776, thede Anza Expedition called the areaEl Cañada de San Vicente.[4] The 1956 Thomas Brothers map spells itSan Antone. This spelling mimics the way it is pronounced in common, modern usage by locals. It was spelled San Antone on the 1924 "Mount Boardman, California" U.S. Geological Survey 15-minute quadrangle.[5][6]: 1–2
La Vereda del Monte traversed the valley on its way between theSacramento River Delta and theCentral Valley and was used byJoaquin Murrieta to transport stolen horses included among legally obtained mustangs taken bymesteñeros in theSan Joaquin Valley. San Antonio Valley was one of the places along the Vereda where these horses were picked up from holding places nearby inAdobe Canyon andIsabel Valley.[7][8][6]: 2–3, 431, 432
The U.S. Postal Service established aDeforest Post Office in the area during 1892. It was moved within the area in 1897, 1906, and finally closed in 1909. Another 1924 map calls a group of buildings along San Antonio Creek, Deforest. The name comes from Ransford S. Deforest, the first Postmaster in the community.
The community lies in theSan Antonio Valley, at elevation 2,133 feet (650 m).[1] The valley is traversed bySan Antonio Creek, which flows northwesterward toArroyo Valle, part of theAlameda Creek watershed.
The community includes aCAL FIRE station at 47405 Mines Road. The station is called, Sweetwater - Station 25 and is part of the Santa Clara Ranger Unit, (Firescope mutual aid identifier SCU).
There is a restaurant at the junction of the three roads (Mines, San Antonio Valley, Del Puerto Canyon), appropriately called The Junction Bar and Grill. This restaurant serves as a community center as well as a stopping-off point for the many motorcycles, bicycles, and tourists that travel the roads.
The area was served bymanual telephone service until deregulation forced the arrival of dial service in the early 1980s. Prior to this, a non-dial Western Electric 1A1 coin telephone served on San Antonio Road about one mile east ofLick Observatory. Its telephone number wasSan Antonio CaliforniaToll Station Number 3. Today, wired telephone numbers for the area follow the format (408) 897-xxxx. The telephone utility serving this area today isFrontier Communications'sCitizens Telecommunications Company of California.
Red Mountain: The Rise and Fall of a Magnesite Mining Empire, 1900-1947 by Robert W. P. Cutler, Morris Publishing, 2001,ISBN 0-9713235-0-X
I Made a Lot of Tracks by Phil Stadtler, CP Media, Bonanza, OR, 2007,ISBN 0-9759841-2-8
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