Editing Cantua Creek, California (section)

==History==
[[File:Cantua Creek Post Office.jpg|thumb|left|Cantua Creek Post Office in 2021]]
The community of Cantua Creek is located near [[Cantua Creek (Fresno Slough tributary)|Cantua Creek]], a tributary of the [[Fresno Slough]] that flows down from the [[California Coast Ranges|Coast Range]] to the west toward the Fresno Slough.  That creek originally, Arroyo de Cantua, was a stopping place on the [[El Camino Viejo]]. The hideout of [[Joaquin Murrieta]] was located in the vicinity of this creek in the mountains to the west of this community.

The Cantua post office operated in 1888, and from 1890 to 1892.<ref name=CGN /> The Cantua Creek post office opened in 1941.<ref name=CGN />