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Welcome to Taylor ...

While we don't have a date for the founding of Taylor, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1906.

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

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

Area Code for Taylor: 907

Communities Also Named Taylor ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 55 communities that are also named Taylor - they are located in Alabama (3), Arizona (2), Arkansas (2), British Columbia, California (2), Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho (3), Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan (3), Mississippi, Missouri (2), Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York (2), North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio (2), Oklahoma (2), Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia (2), Wisconsin and Wyoming (2).

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Taylor.

Adding Taylor to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Taylor 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 Taylor was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Taylor post office opened in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Taylor.

Footnotes ...

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Taylor - 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/