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Welcome to Sunshine ...So far, we found very little information about Sunshine. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Sunshine to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sunshine, please Contact Us. Sunshine would have been located within present day Brown County<2>. The location of Sunshine has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Sunshine, you might consider that their post office opened in 1890. While the community is gone, the present day location for Sunshine is 860 feet [262 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Sunshine was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Communities Also Named Sunshine ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Ohio communities named Sunshine: This one is located in Brown County and the other is located in Adams County. Beyond Ohio, there are 45 communities that are also named Sunshine - they are located in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas (3), British Columbia, Colorado (2), Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas (2), Kentucky (2), Louisiana (2), Maine, Maryland, Missouri (2), Nebraska, New Mexico (3), North Carolina, Ontario (2), Pennsylvania (4), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas (2), Utah (2), Washington (2), West Virginia and Wyoming (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sunshine. Communities near Sunshine ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Sunshine.
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 Sunshine. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Sunshine. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Sunshine. 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 Sunshine. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Sunshine. See our Newspapers Page for Sunshine. Adding Sunshine to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Sunshine 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 Sunshine was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Sunshine in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Sunshine. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Ohio: https://ohio.gov/ Footnotes ...
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