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Welcome to Providence ...So far, we found very little information about Providence. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Providence to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Providence - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Providence, please Contact Us. While we don't have the exact location of Providence , we believe that it would have been located within present day Gallia County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Providence, you might consider that their post office opened in 1904. When the people of Providence referred to themselves (known as a demonym), they are believed to have used Providentian<3> Time Zone: The area where Providence was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Providence would have been located in the (740) area code. Websites for Providence ...Chamber of Commerce: www.galliacounty.org/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Providence, the following might be of interest: Communities Also Named Providence ...While we believe that this Providence is located in Gallia County, we know of another 3 Ohio communities named Providence. Those communities are located in the following counties: Coshocton, Lucas and Wood County. Beyond Ohio, there are 76 communities that are also named Providence - they are located in Alabama (8), Arizona, Arkansas (2), California (2), Florida (3), Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana, Kansas (2), Kentucky (7), Louisiana, Maryland (4), Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi (3), Missouri (2), North Carolina (6), Ontario, Pennsylvania (2), Rhode Island, South Carolina (4), Tennessee (7), Texas (5), Utah, Virginia (3), Washington and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Providence. Adding Providence to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Providence 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 Providence was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Providence. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Gallia County: www.gallianet.net/ The official website for State of Ohio: https://ohio.gov/ Footnotes ...
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