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Welcome to Brewster ...

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

We've added Brewster to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Brewster, please Contact Us.

Brewster would have been located within present day Polk County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Brewster, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1913.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Brewster is 130 feet [40 m] above sea level.<3>.

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

Note: If you leave Brewster and travel west, you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

The Area Code where Brewster was located: 863

Communities Also Named Brewster ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 15 communities that are also named Brewster - they are located in California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.

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

Communities near Brewster ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Brewster.

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 Brewster. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brewster.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Brewster. 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 Brewster.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Brewster. See our Newspapers Page for Brewster.

Adding Brewster to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Brewster 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 Brewster was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

X2X - From that list, the Brewster post office opened in 1913.

We also found Brewster on a map titled Shell Oil Road Map for Florida (1956).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Brewster.

The official website for Polk County: www.polk-county.net/

The official website for State of Florida: https://www.myflorida.com/

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 Brewster, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Florida's counties, including Polk, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Brewster - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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