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Welcome to Bethel ...So far, we found very little information about Bethel. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Bethel to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Bethel, please Contact Us. Bethel would have been located within present day Mercer County<2>. The location of Bethel has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Bethel, you might consider that their post office opened in 1847. While the community is gone, the present day location for Bethel is 2,620 feet [799 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the altitude of Bethel is ½ mile above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Bethel was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Bethel would have been located in the (304) & (681)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Bethel ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 143 communities that are also named Bethel - they are located in Alabama (13), Alaska, Arkansas (7), California, Connecticut (2), Delaware (2), Florida (2), Georgia (10), Illinois (4), Indiana (2), Iowa, Kansas (3), Kentucky (3), Louisiana (2), Maine, Manitoba, Maryland (5), Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi (5), Missouri, New Brunswick, New Jersey, New Mexico (2), New York (2), North Carolina (9), Ohio (5), Oklahoma (2), Ontario (4), Oregon (2), Pennsylvania (8), Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Rhode Island, South Carolina (3), Tennessee (14), Texas (9), Vermont, Virginia (7), Washington and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bethel. Communities near Bethel ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Bethel.
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 Bethel. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Bethel. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Bethel. 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 Bethel. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Bethel. See our Newspapers Page for Bethel. Adding Bethel to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Bethel 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 Bethel was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Bethel in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Bethel. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/ Footnotes ...
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