Welcome to Charleston ...So far, we found very little information about Charleston. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Charleston to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Charleston, please Contact Us. Charleston would have been located within present day Cochise County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Charleston, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879. When the people of Charleston referred to themselves (known as a demonym), they are believed to have used Charlestonian<3> While the community is gone, the present day location for Charleston is 3,980 feet [1,213 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the altitude of Charleston is ¾ mile [or ~1¼ km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Charleston was located is in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time The Area Code where Charleston was located: 520 Communities Also Named Charleston ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 44 communities that are also named Charleston - they are located in Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas (3), Kentucky (2), Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri (2), Nebraska, Nevada (2), New Brunswick, New Jersey, New York (2), Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio (4), Oklahoma, Ontario (3), Oregon, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Tennessee (2), Texas (2), Utah, Washington and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Charleston. Communities near Charleston ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Charleston.
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 Charleston. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Charleston. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Charleston. 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 Charleston. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Charleston. See our Newspapers Page for Charleston. Adding Charleston to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Charleston 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 Charleston was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> For more details, see References and Mentions for Charleston. Footnotes ...
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