Welcome to East Hanover ...

So far, we found very little information about East Hanover. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added East Hanover to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of East Hanover - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with East Hanover, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of East Hanover , we believe that it would have been located within present day New Haven County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of East Hanover, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was on a map dated 1911.

A typical abbreviation for East Hanover: E. Hanover

Time Zone: The area where East Hanover was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

The location where East Hanover once stood is in the (203) & (475)<3> area codes.

Communities Also Named East Hanover ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named East Hanover - they are located in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for East Hanover.

Adding East Hanover to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of East Hanover in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for East Hanover was on a map titled Map of Connecticut (from Rand McNally, 1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for East Hanover.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Connecticut: https://portal.ct.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 East Hanover, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Connecticut's counties, including New Haven, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	Area code (475) is an overlay for area code (203).