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Welcome to Kent ...So far, we found very little information about Kent. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Kent to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Kent, please Contact Us. Kent would have been located within present day Providence County<2>. We aren't confident of the location of Kent, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Kent, you might consider that their post office opened in 1880. The community was inundated by the Scituate Reservoir. While the community is gone, the present day location for Kent is 280 feet [85 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Kent was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Kent would have been located in the (401) area code. Websites for Kent ...Junior League: www.jlri.org/ Communities Also Named Kent ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 47 communities that are also named Kent - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota (2), Missouri (3), Nebraska (2), Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York (2), Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas (3), Virginia (2), Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Kent. Communities near Kent ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Kent.
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 Kent. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Kent. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Kent. 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 Kent. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Kent. See our Newspapers Page for Kent. Adding Kent to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Kent 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 Kent was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Kent in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Kent. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Rhode Island: https://www.ri.gov/ Footnotes ...
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