Welcome to Orwood ...Orwood is located in Contra Costa County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Orwood, you might consider that their post office opened in 1913. Orwood is near sea level<2>. Time Zone: Orwood lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time Communities Also Named Orwood ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Orwood - it's located in Mississippi. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Orwood. Communities near Orwood ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Orwood.
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 Orwood. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Orwood. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Orwood. 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 Orwood. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Orwood. See our Newspapers Page for Orwood. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Orwood ...Looking for more information about Orwood? 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 Orwood, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Orwood. Adding Orwood to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Orwood 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 Orwood was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> We also found Orwood in the book titled SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - California & Nevada. For more details, see References and Mentions for Orwood. Footnotes ...
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