Welcome to Elizabethtown ...
So far, we found very little information about Elizabethtown. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Elizabethtown to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Elizabethtown - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Elizabethtown, please Contact Us.
While we don't have the exact location of Elizabethtown , we believe that it would have been located within present day Plumas County<2>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Elizabethtown, you might consider that their post office opened in 1855.
Time Zone: The area where Elizabethtown was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time
If Elizabethtown still existed, it would have been in the (530) area code.
Communities Also Named Elizabethtown ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two California communities named Elizabethtown: This one is located in Plumas County and the other is located in Shasta County.
Beyond California, there are 19 communities that are also named Elizabethtown - they are located in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas (2), Kentucky, New Mexico, New York (2), North Carolina, Ohio (5), Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Texas.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Elizabethtown.
Adding Elizabethtown 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 Elizabethtown was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
From that list, the Elizabethtown post office opened in 1855.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Elizabethtown.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Plumas County: www.countyofplumas.com/
The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Elizabethtown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Plumas, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |