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Welcome to Fridays Crossing ...

Fridays Crossing is located in Blount County<1>.

A typical abbreviation for Fridays Crossing: Fridays Xing.

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Fridays Crossing for more information about variations on the name of Fridays Crossing.

Fridays Crossing is 810 feet [247 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

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

Area Codes for Fridays Crossing: 205 & 659<3>

Communities near Fridays Crossing ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Fridays Crossing ...

Looking for more information about Fridays Crossing? 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 Fridays Crossing, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Fridays Crossing.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Blount, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fridays Crossing - 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 205 code has been Overlayed with the 659 area code. New phone numbers in the Fridays Crossing area will be assigned with one of these codes: 205 or 659. As a result, placing a call in the Fridays Crossing 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.