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Welcome to Paradise ...So far, we found very little information about Paradise. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Paradise to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Paradise, please Contact Us. Paradise would have been located within present day Drew County<2>. The location of Paradise has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Paradise, you might consider that their post office opened in 1888. While the community is gone, the present day location for Paradise is 220 feet [67 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Paradise was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Paradise would have been located in the (870) area code. Communities Also Named Paradise ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Arkansas communities named Paradise: This one is located in Drew County and the other is located in Franklin County. Beyond Arkansas, there are 39 communities that are also named Paradise - they are located in Alaska, Arizona, California (2), Florida (2), Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland and Labrador (2), Nova Scotia, Ohio (3), Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania (3), Texas, Utah, Washington (2), West Virginia and Wyoming. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Paradise. Communities near Paradise ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Paradise.
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 Paradise. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Paradise. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Paradise. 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 Paradise. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Paradise. See our Newspapers Page for Paradise. Adding Paradise to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Paradise 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 for Paradise was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Paradise in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Paradise. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Arkansas: https://portal.arkansas.gov/ Footnotes ...
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