Per this discussion, there are many stubby Wikipedia articles on California locales that have been created sourced to a GNIS entries. GNIS has errors and may contain locales that are not notable, per WP:NGEO.
The plan for the cleanup is the following. For each county in California:
Create a work page as a subpage of this one, using this template
Fill in the work page by sorting articles by notability
When finished sorting, create a list article (e.g., List of unincorporated communities in Modoc County, California), with formatting described here
Modify the county navboxes (e.g., ((Modoc County, California))) to refer to the new list article and remove non-notable entries.
USPS Report on the evolution of mail delivery: it explains what a fourth-class post office was. At the height of pre-RFD service there were 76,000 of these, and yes, often enough they were just a spot in someone's house.
Lake County Historical Society (2009). Lake County, 1871–1960. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN9780738560175.
Hoberg, Donna (2007). Resorts of Lake County. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN9780738547985.
Arcadia books are not the be-all-and-end-all, but they do point the way. Arcadia (and other local history) books helped sort out Robert, California (AfD discussion) and Escalle, Larkspur, California; helped identify what Salminas Resort, California (AfD discussion) actually was; and conversely made the cases stronger against the likes of Ettawa Springs, California (AfD discussion). All of these were two-sentence GNIS-only stubs at the time of deletion nomination, all claiming "unincorporated community".