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About Likely, CA

Likely now occupies what was originally an Achumawi (Pit River) village known as Hamawe or Hammawi. : 47 The town was initially known as South Fork, named after the South Fork of the Pit River, and was renamed at the insistence of the United States Post Office, which insisted at that time that Post Offices could only have short, unique names. Residents were unable to agree what to name their town until a local rancher observed that they would most likely never agree upon a name, at which point someone nominated the name, "Likely", and the name was voted in. : 93 The South Fork post office operated from 1878 to 1882. The Likely post office opened in 1886.