Welcome to Portal ...Portal is located in Cochise County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Portal, you might consider that their post office opened in 1905. Portal is 4,760 feet [1,451 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Portal is about 1 mile [or ~1½ km] above sea level. Time Zone: Portal lies in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Portal, you will leave Mountain Standard Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT). In addition, you will be moving from an area that does not observe daylight saving time to one that does. Area Code for Portal: 520 Communities Also Named Portal ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Portal - they are located in Georgia, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Ontario. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Portal. Communities near Portal ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Portal.
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 Portal. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Portal. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Portal. 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 Portal. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Portal. See our Newspapers Page for Portal. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Portal ...Looking for more information about Portal? 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. In addition to the Tourism page for Portal, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Portal. Adding Portal to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Portal 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 Portal was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Portal on a map titled Shell Oil Road Map for Arizona (1956). For more details, see References and Mentions for Portal. Footnotes ...
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