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Welcome to Crawfordsville ...

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

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

Crawfordsville would have been located within present day Crawford County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Crawfordsville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1871.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Crawfordsville is 440 feet [134 m] above sea level.<3>.

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

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

The Area Codes where Crawfordsville was located: 618 & 730<4>

Communities Also Named Crawfordsville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 8 communities that are also named Crawfordsville - they are located in Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio and Oregon.

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

Communities near Crawfordsville ...

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

  • Vincennes
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Robinson
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Lawrenceville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Sumner
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Bridgeport
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Oblong
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Palestine
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Carlisle
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Saint Francisville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Oaktown
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)

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

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

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

Adding Crawfordsville to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Crawfordsville post office opened in 1871. The Crawfordsville post office closed in 1882.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Crawfordsville.

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 Crawfordsville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Crawford, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Crawfordsville - 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 618 code has been Overlayed with the 730 area code. New phone numbers in the Crawfordsville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 618 or 730. As a result, placing a call in the Crawfordsville 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/