Welcome to Prairie Plains ...
So far, we found very little information about Prairie Plains. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Prairie Plains to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Prairie Plains - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Prairie Plains, please Contact Us.
Prairie Plains was located While we don't have the exact location of Prairie Plains , we believe that it would have been located within present day Grimes County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Prairie Plains, you might consider that their post office opened in 1849. A typical abbreviation for Prairie Plains: Prairie Plns. Time Zone: The area where Prairie Plains was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Prairie Plains would have been located in the (936) area code. Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Prairie Plains - they are located in Kansas and Tennessee. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Prairie Plains. We originally found mention of Prairie Plains 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 Prairie Plains was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3> We also found Prairie Plains in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Prairie Plains.
The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/Communities Also Named Prairie Plains ...
Adding Prairie Plains to Our Gazetteer ...
From that list, the Prairie Plains post office opened in 1849.Off-the-Road Links ...
Footnotes ...
<1> We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Prairie Plains, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. <2> If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Grimes, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. <3> A copy of their list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/