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Welcome to Avoca ...

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

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

Avoca would have been located within present day Livingston County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Avoca, you might consider that their post office opened in 1838.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Avoca is 650 feet [198 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Avoca was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel east from Avoca (for example, toward Earl Park (IN)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

The Area Codes where Avoca was located: 815 & 779<4>

Communities Also Named Avoca ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 25 communities that are also named Avoca - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (4), Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

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

Communities near Avoca ...

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

  • Pontiac
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Pontiac is located in Livingston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pontiac
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,176 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pontiac <5>
  • Fairbury
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Lexington
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Chenoa
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Gridley
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Forrest
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Chatsworth
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Flanagan
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Colfax
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Odell
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)

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

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

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

Adding Avoca to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Avoca post office opened in 1838. The Avoca post office closed in 1872.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Avoca.

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 Avoca, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Livingston, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Avoca - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 815 code has been Overlayed with the 779 area code. New phone numbers in the Avoca area will be assigned with one of these codes: 815 or 779. As a result, placing a call in the Avoca area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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