Tunitas, California

Tunitas, California
Ghost town
Tunitas, California Location within the state of California
Coordinates: 37°22′59″N122°23′57″W / 37.38306°N 122.39917°W / 37.38306; -122.39917
Country	United States
State	California
County	San Mateo
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)

Tunitas on 1940 USGS topo map

Early planning of stops on the Ocean Shore Railroad included a station or flag stop at Lobitos near Tunitas.

Tunitas station was on Tunitas Creek, south of the settlement.

Tunitas, California was a small unincorporated community in San Mateo County. It was originally located on State Route 1 until that state route was moved to the west. It was also renamed Lobitos. ^[1]

Arroyo de las Tunitas is shown on the diseños, about 1839, of the San Gregorio and Canada Verde grants. ^[2] The name means “A small bush…grows super-abundant at and near its mouth, and its fruit is known to the present generation as sea apples.” ^[3]

References

1. https://bard.wr.usgs.gov/historical/jpg/halfmoonbay1940a.jpg; https://bard.wr.usgs.gov/historical/jpg/halfmoonbay1961a.jpg
2. Gudde, Erwin G. (1998). California place names : the origin and etymology of current geographical names (4th ed., rev. and enl. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p.  403. ISBN   0520213165.
3. "Funny name…What does Tunitas mean?…… | Pescadero Memories".