Welcome to Lake Valley ...Lake Valley is located in El Dorado County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Lake Valley, you might consider that their post office opened in 1861. A typical abbreviation for Lake Valley: Lake Vly. (or less commonly used: Lake Vally. or Lake Vlly.) Lake Valley is 6,200 feet [1,890 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Lake Valley is about 1¼ mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level. Time Zone: Lake Valley lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Codes for Lake Valley: 530 & 837<3> Communities Also Named Lake Valley ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 7 communities that are also named Lake Valley - they are located in Indiana, New Mexico (2), North Carolina, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan and Tennessee. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lake Valley. Websites for Lake Valley ...Chamber of Commerce: www.eldoradocounty.org/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Lake Valley, the following might be of interest: Communities near Lake Valley ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Lake Valley.
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 Lake Valley. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Lake Valley. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Lake Valley. 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 Lake Valley. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Lake Valley. See our Newspapers Page for Lake Valley. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Lake Valley ...Looking for more information about Lake Valley? 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. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Lake Valley, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Lake Valley. Adding Lake Valley to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Lake Valley 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 Lake Valley was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Lake Valley. Footnotes ...
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