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Welcome to Dome ...So far, we found very little information about Dome. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Dome to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Dome, please Contact Us. Dome would have been located within present day Yuma County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Dome, you might consider that their post office opened in 1892. While the community is gone, the present day location for Dome is 190 feet [58 m] above sea level.<3>. Time Zone: The area where Dome was located is in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time Note: If you leave Dome and travel west, you will soon leave Mountain Standard Time and cross into the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT). In addition, you will be moving from an area that does not observe daylight saving time to one that does. Dome would have been located in the (928) area code. Going back to its beginning, Dome was originally named Swiveler's Station. For more information about the names of Dome, see The Names of Dome on our Genealogy Page. Communities Also Named Dome ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 4 communities that are also named Dome - they are located in Alaska, North Carolina, Ontario and Texas. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Dome. Communities near Dome ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Dome.
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 Dome. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Dome. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Dome. 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 Dome. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Dome. See our Newspapers Page for Dome. Adding Dome to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Dome 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 for Dome was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Dome on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Arizona and New Mexico (1925). For more details, see References and Mentions for Dome. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Yuma County: www.co.yuma.az.us/ The official website for State of Arizona: https://az.gov/ Footnotes ...
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