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Welcome to Silver Springs ...So far, we found very little information about Silver Springs. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Silver Springs to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Silver Springs, please Contact Us. Silver Springs would have been located within present day Benton County<2>. The location of Silver Springs has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Silver Springs, you might consider that their post office opened in 1888. A typical abbreviation for Silver Springs: Silver Spgs. (or less commonly used: Silver Spngs. or Silver Sprngs.) While the community is gone, the present day location for Silver Springs is 1,120 feet [341 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Silver Springs was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time The location where Silver Springs once stood is in the (479) area code. Communities Also Named Silver Springs ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 20 communities that are also named Silver Springs - they are located in Alaska, Colorado (2), Delaware, Florida (2), Mississippi, Missouri (2), Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York (2), North Carolina (2), Ohio, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Silver Springs. Communities near Silver Springs ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Silver Springs.
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 Silver Springs. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Silver Springs. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Silver Springs. 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 Silver Springs. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Silver Springs. See our Newspapers Page for Silver Springs. Adding Silver Springs to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Silver Springs 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 Silver Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Silver Springs in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Silver Springs. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Benton County: www.co.benton.ar.us/ The official website for State of Arkansas: https://portal.arkansas.gov/ Footnotes ...
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