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Welcome to Ogee ...So far, we found very little information about Ogee. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Ogee to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Ogee, please Contact Us. Ogee would have been located within present day Blount County<2>. The location of Ogee has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Ogee, you might consider that their post office opened in 1857. While the community is gone, the present day location for Ogee is 1,050 feet [320 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Ogee was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Ogee (for example, toward Etna (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). If Ogee still existed, it would have been in the (205) & (269)<5> area codes. Communities near Ogee ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Ogee.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Ogee. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Ogee. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Ogee. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Ogee. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Ogee. See our Newspapers Page for Ogee. Adding Ogee to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Ogee in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Ogee was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Ogee in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870). For more details, see References and Mentions for Ogee. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Blount County: www.co.blount.al.us/ The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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