Welcome to Providence ...So far, we found very little information about Providence. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Providence to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Providence - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Providence, please Contact Us. While we don't have the exact location of Providence , we believe that it would have been located within present day Yavapai County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Providence, you might consider that their post office opened in 1899. When the people of Providence referred to themselves (known as a demonym), they are believed to have used Providentian<3> Time Zone: The area where Providence was located is in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time The Area Code where Providence was located: 928 Communities Also Named Providence ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 76 communities that are also named Providence - they are located in Alabama (8), Arkansas (2), California (2), Florida (3), Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana, Kansas (2), Kentucky (7), Louisiana, Maryland (4), Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi (3), Missouri (2), North Carolina (6), Ohio (4), Ontario, Pennsylvania (2), Rhode Island, South Carolina (4), Tennessee (7), Texas (5), Utah, Virginia (3), Washington and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Providence. Adding Providence to Our Gazetteer ...As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future. The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Providence was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Providence. Footnotes ...
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