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Welcome to East Bend ...

East Bend is located in Talladega County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of East Bend, you might consider that their post office opened in 1888.

A typical abbreviation for East Bend: E. Bend

East Bend is 440 feet [134 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: East Bend lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for East Bend: 256 & 938<3>

Communities Also Named East Bend ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named East Bend - it's located in North Carolina.

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

Communities near East Bend ...

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

  • Talladega
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Pell City
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Moody
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Moody is located in Saint Clair County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moody
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,292 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moody <4>
  • Chelsea
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Leeds
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Leeds is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeds
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,026 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Leeds <4>
  • Sylacauga
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Lincoln
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Childersburg
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Odenville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Riverside
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for East Bend ...

Looking for more information about East Bend? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to East Bend, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for East Bend.

Adding East Bend to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of East Bend 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 East Bend was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the East Bend post office opened in 1888. The East Bend post office closed in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for East Bend.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Talladega, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around East Bend - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>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 256 code has been Overlayed with the 938 area code. New phone numbers in the East Bend area will be assigned with one of these codes: 256 or 938. As a result, placing a call in the East Bend area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/