Bell Station (or Bell's Station) is an unincorporated area located along State Route 152 between Casa de Fruta and Pacheco Pass near the southeast extent of Santa Clara County, California.
A Department of Transportation (Caltrans) maintenance station used to exist in this area. A California Department of Forestry fire station is west of Bell Station along SR152.
The ZIP Code is 95020 and the community is inside area code 408.
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The location was originally called Hollenbeck's Station, (possibly after the namesake of the Sunnyvale street of the same name).[1] It was renamed for Lafayette F. Bell, who had built a saloon at the entrance to a road over Pacheco Pass. Later, Bell bought the road over Pacheco Pass from Andrew Firebaugh and began charging a toll for passage. A Bell's Station Post Office was established by the U.S. Postal Service, and was in use from 1873-1914.[2]
Some references say the locale was a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route. [2] The stagecoach route to San Francisco from the American midwest was known to have stops every ten miles or so along its length.
Bell Station is an officially-defined geographic feature of type locale in the National Geographic Names Database. The feature ID number is 218994. The location also appears on the US Geological Survey 7.5-minute quadrangle "Pacheco Peak, California" and the 1921 "Gilroy Hot Springs, California" 15-minute quadrangle.
The US Geological Survey latitude and longitude for the locale is given as . The area is about 350 feet above mean sea level (AMSL).
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