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Welcome to Bleak ...So far, we found very little information about Bleak. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Bleak to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Bleak, please Contact Us. Bleak would have been located within present day Shelby County<2>. The location of Bleak has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Bleak, you might consider that their post office opened in 1893. While the community is gone, the present day location for Bleak is 350 feet [107 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Bleak was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Bleak would have been located in the (901) area code. Communities Also Named Bleak ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Bleak - it's located in Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bleak. Communities near Bleak ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Bleak.
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 Bleak. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Bleak. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Bleak. 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 Bleak. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Bleak. See our Newspapers Page for Bleak. Adding Bleak to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Bleak 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 Bleak was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> For more details, see References and Mentions for Bleak. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Shelby County: www.shelbycountytn.gov/ The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/ Footnotes ...
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