Welcome to Summit ...Summit is located in Muscatine County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Summit, you might consider that their post office opened in 1858. Summit is 710 feet [216 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Summit lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Communities Also Named Summit ...While we believe that this Summit is located in Muscatine County, we know of another 3 Iowa communities named Summit. Those communities are located in the following counties: Fremont, Lee and Linn County. Beyond Iowa, there are 170 communities that are also named Summit - they are located in Alabama (3), Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas (5), California (8), Colorado (2), Connecticut (2), Florida, Georgia (5), Idaho, Illinois (3), Indiana (7), Kansas (5), Kentucky (5), Louisiana, Maine (3), Maryland (3), Massachusetts, Michigan (10), Minnesota (3), Mississippi, Missouri (3), Montana (2), Nebraska (2), Nevada (4), New Brunswick (2), New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico (2), New York (5), North Carolina (4), Ohio (11), Oklahoma, Ontario (2), Oregon (3), Pennsylvania (16), Quebec (3), Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee (4), Texas (3), Utah, Vermont (6), Virginia (5), Washington (4), West Virginia (2), Wisconsin (5) and Wyoming. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Summit. Communities near Summit ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Summit.
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 Summit. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Summit. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Summit. 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 Summit. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Summit. See our Newspapers Page for Summit. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Summit ...Looking for more information about Summit? 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 Summit, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Summit. Adding Summit to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Summit 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 (so far) for Summit was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Summit. Footnotes ...
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