Welcome to Shawnee ...Shawnee is located in Mississippi County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Shawnee, you might consider that their post office opened in 1880. Shawnee is 230 feet [70 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Shawnee lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Shawnee, you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Area Codes for Shawnee: 870 & 327<3> Communities Also Named Shawnee ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 24 communities that are also named Shawnee - they are located in Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio (2), Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (2), Texas (2), Virginia, Washington (2), West Virginia and Wyoming. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Shawnee. Communities near Shawnee ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Shawnee.
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 Shawnee. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Shawnee. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Shawnee. 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 Shawnee. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Shawnee. See our Newspapers Page for Shawnee. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Shawnee ...Looking for more information about Shawnee? 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 Shawnee, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Shawnee. Adding Shawnee to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Shawnee 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 Shawnee was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Shawnee. Footnotes ...
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