Welcome to La Place ...La Place is located in Macon County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of La Place, you might consider that their post office opened in 1858. La Place is 310 feet [94 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: La Place lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from La Place (for example, toward Columbus (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Area Codes for La Place: 334 & 483<3> Communities Also Named La Place ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named La Place - they are located in Illinois and Louisiana. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for La Place. Communities near La Place ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near La Place.
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 La Place. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for La Place. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of La Place. 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 La Place. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around La Place. See our Newspapers Page for La Place. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for La Place ...Looking for more information about La Place? 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 La Place, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for La Place. Adding La Place to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of La Place 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 (so far) for La Place was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for La Place. Footnotes ...
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