Is This Knightsentry CA?

I can make out Knightse??ry CA

Google turned up nothing for Knightsentry or Knight Sentry

Try Knightsen, Cal.

Knightsen?

https://www.google.com/maps?q=37.97,-121.65

Don

Edit:
From July 1910, Series 3, Official Post Office Guide

Knights Ferry, / Cal.

Nevermind, I see the Ferry on the stamp now.
Don

Jim Forte has a post office look up by word or string.


https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp


Grab cut off two other "Knight......" entries.

Being a CA native who traveled and travels a lot, I knew the town name immediately having been through there many times. Even drove over the longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi, one of the best examples of a Howe Truss covered bridge, several times before it was closed to auto traffic. Worth a google.

I believe JB nailed it. Thanks.

parcel - I was vaguely aware that existed, but not how to locate it. I have now saved the link.

Yes, I and some others, JB too I believe, periodically post that link. Now in my screen shot above the "highlighted spot button" shows "word" and not "string" My search as a string search and the results were shown. I however accidentally switched the button just before taking the screenshot. The string search is FANTASTIC when you can only make out a few letters. When you know the state, you narrow down the possibilities, but if state is unknown all will be searched.

Lastly the irony of Don's post was he highlight the post office above the correct name.

If going to Yosemite NP from the SF Bay Area via Highway 120 (north entrance) it is a four minute side trip from 120.

My reply above was quite short to merely mention a town name. Such was my time availability that evening.

My methodology of books versus internet depends on the data presented in each case. Since there was a very clear beginning of the town name and a state, I pulled the printed July 1913 Postal Guide off the shelf and went to the California town list and found this listing for Knights Ferry:



Thus solved. And by a method fairly similar to Don's simultaneous use of a more extensive town list also in a year close to the candidate postmark.

I did do a quick confirming check with Jim Forte's post office list and found confirming information, but did not have time to make screen shots, etc. As Parcelpostguy notes, Forte's website is hugely valuable .... especially the partial string search feature. Consider it's usefulness when the beginning of the town name is unreadable. What if your cancel had read ".....TS FERRY CAL" The string search would have made quick work of the marking and I would have gone to Forte's site first as the best tool for the problem..

parcel - I made that trip over 20 years ago

For a partial word search and lookups for Post Offices that have been assigned zip codes, the Stamp Smarter Zip Code tool can also be useful.


The highlighted town name in my post above was a screen capture of an Adobe Acrobat search. Rather than maintaining an extensive hard copy library like John, I have a 2TB external hard drive with the digitization of tens of thousands of philatelic books and articles (including countless USPOD pubications). This method also supports a partial word search so when I searched on 'knigh' it searched and returned many possible candidate's to consider.
Don