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Welcome to Hand ...

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

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

Hand was located in the Arkansas Ozarks.

Hand would have been located within present day Baxter County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hand, you might consider that their post office opened in 1909. The community was inundated by Norfork Lake.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Hand is 520 feet [158 m] above sea level.<3>.

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

The Area Codes where Hand was located: 870 & 327<4>

Communities Also Named Hand ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named Hand - they are located in Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, South Carolina, South Dakota and Virginia.

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

Communities near Hand ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Hand to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Hand 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 Hand was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Hand post office opened in 1909. The Hand post office closed in 1943.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hand.

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 Hand, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Arkansas' counties, including Baxter, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Hand - 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 870 code has been Overlayed with the 327 area code. New phone numbers in the Hand area will be assigned with one of these codes: 870 or 327. As a result, placing a call in the Hand 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/