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Subject: Re: Four Doors, CA
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:45:33 -0600
From: Mike Flannigan <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
I couldn't find any Four Door in the whole USA. And as you
say, none very close to that name in CA. Here are some
things around the country that are close to that name:
Forder Ranch - Lincoln County, CO
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=38.70917&lon=-103.71000&datum=NAD27&s=50&size=l
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Forder - Lincoln County, CO
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=38.68083&lon=-103.70528&datum=NAD27&s=50&size=l
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Fordair - Grant County, WA
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=47.63611&lon=-119.26833&datum=NAD27&s=50&size=l
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Forder School (historical) - St. Louis County, MO - Located at Mehlville. -
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Forder School (historical) - Paulding County, OH
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=41.22361&lon=-84.67028&datum=NAD27&s=50&size=l
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Mike
> Subject: Four Doors, CA
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:07:47 -0500
> From: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Four Doors, CA
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:46:24 -0700
> From: Robert C. Berlo <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> To: maps-l
> CC:
>
> Hello, Tom,
>
> As the author of several books on the history of California places, I
> have been contacted to see if I could provide any help locating Four
> Doors, California. I consulted my own works as well as other sources I
> have (including Durham's California's Geographic Names, which includes
> some 58,000 entries), and no such place was turned up. In addition I
> have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 61 years and traveled
> extensively in Northern California, and I do not recall ever running
> into such a place.
>
> I can only conclude either that Four Doors is merely the name of a
> tavern or roadhouse and not a town or that the name itself is mistaken.
> A near-soundalike is Fort Ord, near Monterey. Several places are named
> Four Corners (and other combinations with "four"). The only place name
> with "door" in it is Caldor, the company town in El Dorado County of the
> California Door Co. Also, I recall that Ford Motor Company used to call
> their four-door sedans Fordors, so I checked that spelling too (and
> other variant spellings) with no luck.
>
> Bob Berlo
> Livermore, California
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