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Welcome to West ...So far, we found very little information about West. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added West to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with West, please Contact Us. West would have been located within present day Conway County<2>. The location of West has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of West, you might consider that their post office opened in 1901. While the community is gone, the present day location for West is 930 feet [283 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where West was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time West would have been located in the (501) area code. Communities Also Named West ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 13 communities that are also named West - they are located in Alabama, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi (2), New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee (2), Texas and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for West. Communities near West ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near West.
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 West. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for West. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of West. 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 West. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around West. See our Newspapers Page for West. Adding West to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of West 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 West was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> For more details, see References and Mentions for West. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Arkansas: https://portal.arkansas.gov/ Footnotes ...
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