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Welcome to Nyac ...

While we don't have a date for the founding of Nyac, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1926.

Nyac is 550 feet [168 m] above sea level.<1>.

Time Zone: Nyac lies in the Alaskan Time Zone (AKST/AKDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Nyac: 907

Adding Nyac to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Nyac in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Nyac was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Nyac post office opened in 1926.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Nyac.

Footnotes ...

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Nyac - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/