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Welcome to Fort Hill ...

Fort Hill is located in Lake County<1>.

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

A typical abbreviation for Fort Hill: Ft. Hill

Fort Hill is 800 feet [244 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Fort Hill lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Fort Hill: 847 & 224<3>

Communities Also Named Fort Hill ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 16 communities that are also named Fort Hill - they are located in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York (4), Oregon, Pennsylvania (2), Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia (3) and West Virginia.

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

Communities near Fort Hill ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Fort Hill ...

Looking for more information about Fort Hill? 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 Fort Hill, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Fort Hill.

Adding Fort Hill to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Fort Hill 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 Fort Hill was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Fort Hill post office opened in 1838. The Fort Hill post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Fort Hill.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Lake, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fort Hill - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>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 847 code has been Overlayed with the 224 area code. New phone numbers in the Fort Hill area will be assigned with one of these codes: 847 or 224. As a result, placing a call in the Fort Hill area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/