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Welcome to Costilla ...

So far, we found very little information about Costilla. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Costilla to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Costilla, please Contact Us.

Costilla would have been located within present day Geneva County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Costilla, you might consider that their post office opened in 1894.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Costilla is 230 feet [70 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Costilla was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel east from Costilla (for example, toward Cedar Springs (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

The Area Codes where Costilla was located: 334 & 483<4>

Communities Also Named Costilla ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Costilla - it's located in New Mexico.

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

Communities near Costilla ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Costilla.

  • Enterprise
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Daleville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Geneva
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Hartford
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Level Plains
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Level Plains is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Level Plains
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,952 people
  • Slocomb
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Samson
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • New Brockton
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Clayhatchee
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Clayhatchee is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayhatchee
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 580 people
  • Kinston
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)

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 Costilla. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Costilla.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Costilla. 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 Costilla.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Costilla. See our Newspapers Page for Costilla.

Adding Costilla to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Costilla 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 (so far) for Costilla was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Costilla post office opened in 1894. The Costilla post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Costilla.

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 Costilla, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Geneva, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Costilla - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 334 code has been Overlayed with the 483 area code. New phone numbers in the Costilla area will be assigned with one of these codes: 334 or 483. As a result, placing a call in the Costilla area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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